Physics

space

The Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon Has Been This Way For Billions Of Years

ByKiona Smith
Space

Is Dark Matter Real? Inside the Theories That Leave This Mysterious Phenomenon Out

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Just Used A Bizarre New Method To Capture Evidence of Elusive Stellar Winds

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

60 Years Ago, a Famous Physicist Made a Prediction that Changed Our Understanding Of the Universe

ByHarald Fox and The Conversation
Space

5 Years After the First Black Hole Image, Physicists Unveil A New Experiment To Map Space-Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Inside the Outlandish Space Project to Construct a Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon

ByKiona Smith
Science

This Easy, Free App Helps Take Beautiful Pictures of the Eclipse From Your Phone

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Just Noticed Something Bizarre About Elderly Galaxies

ByKiona Smith
Space

Hubble Scrutinized Hundreds of Newborn Stars to Untangle How Galaxies Evolve

ByKiona Smith
Space

Elusive “Ghost” Particles from Space May Solve A Longstanding Mystery In Quantum Physics

ByKiona Smith
Science

The Record Of Ancient Eclipses Offers Strange Clues About Our Modern Planet

ByThe Conversation and Sarah Sadavoy
Space

Forget Betelgeuse! This Star Is Actually About to Explode

ByKiona Smith
Science

“Brilliant Engineering:” The Untold Story Of Plastic And The Quest To Make It Sustainable

ByBoyce Upholt and Knowable Magazine
Space

Look! Scientists Uncover the Remains of a Collapsed Volcano On Mars

ByKiona Smith
Science

Physicists Just Measured Gravity on the Smallest Scale Ever By Using a Promising New Technique

BySam Baron and The Conversation
Space

“Something doesn’t add up”: The Webb Telescope Identified Premature Supermassive Back Holes

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Uncovered The Oldest ‘Nearly Dead’ Galaxy Astronomers Have Ever Seen

ByKiona Smith
Space

Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa May Be Missing a Key Ingredient for Life

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Uncovered A Possible Explanation for Why Giant Gaseous Planets Often Fail

ByKiona Smith
space

Dwarf Galaxies Made the Early Universe Visible

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Solved a 37-Year-Old Space Explosion Mystery

ByKiona Smith
Space

A Backbone Holding Up the Milky Way Is Bending — Astronomers Don't Know Why

ByKiona Smith
The Superhero Issue

Who's the best superhero of all time? Science reveals the surprising answer

BySaqib Haroon
The Inverse Awards

The 12 Most Mind-Blowing Science Breakthroughs of 2023

ByElana Spivack
The Inverse Awards

2023 Ignited a New Era For Nuclear Fusion. 2024 Could Be Even Brighter

ByRahul Rao
Dream Teams

By coming together, 3,000 scientists changed the course of physics forever

ByGrace Browne

Inside the FBI's secret Einstein file: Flying saucers and Soviet conspiracies

ByRahul Rao
Future 50

Climate scientist Kate Marvel: “With science plus action, things can get better."

ByGrace Browne
Strange histories

Science and superheroes invented the multiverse by mistake — they’re still fighting over it today

ByEric Francisco
zero to sixty

Watch: Microscopic beetle bends the rules of flight

ByJennifer Walter
Hall of fame

2021 Nobel Prizes and beyond: 8 discoveries shaping the future of science

ByJennifer Walter
Fluffy

Earth-like clouds on Mars reveal a similarity between the planets

ByJennifer Walter
The Sun

Quiz: How much do you know about solar eruptions?

ByJoAnna Wendel
Get back

Look: Supermassive black holes close to Earth predicted to collide

ByJennifer Walter
Galaxy brain

New images reveal weird galaxies

ByJoAnna Wendel
Science

Coolest space photos of the week

ByJoAnna Wendel
Colors on the brain

Mind-reading scientists know what colors you see

ByJoAnna Wendel
Einstein Was Right

Look: Hubble captures rare Einstein Ring phenomenon

ByJennifer Walter
This week in science

Physics of solar storms and more: Understand the world in 8 images

ByRobin Bea
Shatterproof

Watch: Elastic ice defies what we know about this brittle material

ByJennifer Walter
singularity

Predicted 'information catastrophe' may be caused by fifth state of matter

BySarah Wells
zoomies

This squirming robotic superstructure is the next Roomba

BySarah Wells
Check, please!

Molecular chemistry debunks a misguided pasta cooking technique

ByElana Spivack
The Rules of Time Travel

The best sci-fi thriller on Netflix reveals a provocative spin on time travel

ByTara Yarlagadda
say cheese

Space scientists use 3.2 billion-pixel camera to take largest photo ever

BySarah Wells
Seatbelts on

Why a classic physics phenomenon could prevent future car crashes

BySarah Wells
Science

A new plasma-based technology could be crucial for living on Mars

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

This Weird New Material Could Be the Key to Superfast Computer Chips

ByKiona Smith
Antimatter annihilation

Ghost collisions under Antarctic ice reveal rarely seen force in physics

ByEric Betz
Science

This Nobel-Prize Winning Method To Snapshot Electrons Could Revolutionize Modern Computing

ByKiona Smith