Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

California firm founders, including two US Energy Dept. veterans, aim to scale laser-based inertial confinement fusion ...

Understand the magnetic field of two long wires with this detailed physics example! Learn how currents interact, how to calculate the resulting magnetic field, and visualize the principles behind ...

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Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure and stability of matter. Now an international collaboration of physicists ...

"The Cosmos Will See You Now" was Rocket Lab's 80th launch to date. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the ...

At this January’s American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) SciTech Forum, an international team of researchers will present findings from Boundary Layer Transition (BOLT)-1B, the ...

Allergen Alert is a portable lab that could help make things easier for people with food allergies to gluten and dairy. Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, ...

Cozy production line simulation game dated for Nintendo consoles. You play as Morgan, an aspiring engineer headed home to complete your family’s dream project—a rocket ship! Finding home not quite how ...

An Electron lifts off Nov. 20 carrying an undisclosed commercial satellite. Credit: Rocket Lab BREMEN, Germany — Rocket Lab launched a payload for an undisclosed commercial customer Nov. 20, just ...

In the 1960s, a group of physicists and historians began a massive project meant to catalogue and record the history of quantum physics. It was called Sources for History of Quantum Physics (SHQP). As ...