Space exploration is long on the list of exciting game themes to appeal to gamers, from early space shooters to modern ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

An asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, named Apophis, could potentially hit Earth in 2029, but scientists ...

Quantum entanglement is one seriously long-distance relationship. Quantum entanglement is a fascinating, counterintuitive phenomenon where two subatomic particles remain deeply connected, even if ...

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The British scientist has been selected to lead the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, Europe’s CERN ...

Four-wave mixing A weak optical signal (red) from a spacecraft transmitter can be amplified noise-free when it encounters two pump waves (blue and green) in a receiver on Earth. (Courtesy: Chalmers ...

“In the ’80s, we had no room in our imagination that there could possibly be liquid water that far out in the solar system,” says Abigail Rymer, a space physicist at Johns Hopkins Universit ...

Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now imagine that they are spread out over the entire Earth’s inhabited areas. Although still a large number, it is ...

NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details ...

A common way ecologists predict population counts may be an unreliable way of forecasting future bird counts in urban areas, ...