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, ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Engineers have found a way to shepherd microrobots with no wires, no radios, and no onboard computers. Instead, they steer them with light patterns designed using the same math physicists use to ...

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.

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.

The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Dec 17 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has approved changes to a Nevada solar energy project, according to permitting documents seen by Reuters on Wednesday, its first advancement ...