One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its ...

Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, ...

The KM3NeT Collaboration, operating a partially built neutrino detector on the Mediterranean seafloor off the coast of Sicily, has recorded a cosmic neutrino with an estimated energy of about 220 PeV, ...

An introduction to how Maxwell’s equations lead to electromagnetic plane waves. This lesson explains the physics behind wave ...

Scientists studying particle collisions at CERN have captured new evidence of how quarks move through the early universe’s primordial plasma.

Israeli strikes on Tehran fuel depots unleashed toxic smoke and ’black rain’, raising fears of respiratory illnesses, ...

An international team from China and Italy has reported a possible cosmic encore to the landmark 2017 multi-messenger ...

One scientist theorizes that before the early universe expanded, it consisted of a “pre-inflationary multiverse” made of particles in quantum superposition.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have proposed a new test to measure the “quantumness” of gravity after finding that conventional “quantum entanglement-based” tests may be ...

More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...