Through Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, junior physics major Joao Passos is studying brown dwarfs — objects bigger than planets but smaller than stars — ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new "superfast rotator" asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever ...

In labs focused on clean energy, a quiet shift is underway. Instead of treating carbon dioxide as a dead-end waste gas, ...

The Nanotechnology Revolution in Advanced Materials It’s pretty wild to think about how much materials science has ...

In recent years, electronics engineers have been trying to identify semiconducting materials that could substitute for ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

For the first time, physicists in Italy have created a 'lump soliton': an extremely stable packet of light waves which can ...

One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...

NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.

A new study highlights a semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cell designed to work in places traditional panels can't, like ...

The largest structures in the universe are galaxy clusters—groups of galaxies held together by gravity. Their developmental ...

After funding six solar energy projects and hosting 15 educational events, the Solar on La Crosse Schools group plans to ...