At first glance, it looks like a simple setup. Then the baseball bats start spinning at helicopter-level speeds, and everything changes instantly. Objects don’t bounce, they explode, fragment, and ...

Physics sets unforgiving limits on how fast anything can move, yet the same laws also leave surprising room for creative ways ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

As with AI, part of the excitement is driven by the immense leaps that could be made in hard problems by a quantum computer.

By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t pose a threat to life ...

Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, 48, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a New Hampshire storage unit on ...

Astronomers have discovered a carbon-rich exoplanet with a bizarre atmosphere and shape, orbiting a neutron star under extreme conditions that challenge current models of planetary formation. Scientis ...

What looked like a mysterious exoplanet was actually the sparkling debris from a violent collision between massive space rocks.

Complexity mounts, driven by multiple dies, larger and more complex systems, and the incessant demand for performance improvements everywhere.