Quantum sensing and photonics are really starting to take off, and 2025 is shaping up to be a big year for both. We’re seeing ...

Quantum mechanics looks at how things work at the atomic and subatomic levels, where particles behave in ways that seem ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

One cool part of physics summer programmes is meeting people who actually study physics for a living. Some are university ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

The amount of data gathered by Rubin Observatory in just the first year of the LSST will be greater than that collected by all other observatories combined,” stated Mike England in a recent briefing.

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These ...

Did light shine in the universe’s earliest moments, or was it hidden from view? While this question may seem simple at first, ...

With no stars to shine through the gas, darkness persisted for the next 50 million years. Hydrogen atoms absorbed all photons that remained from the big bang, shrouding the universe in fog.