We may never figure out where interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came from
A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma of gas…
First Close-Up of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Reveals a Strange Cosmic Phenomenon That’s Baffling Experts
At a distance of 160,000 light-years, an aging red supergiant star in a neighboring galaxy has become the…
Dwarf Galaxies May Hold the Answers to the Debate on Dark Matter
Dark Matter is one of the tenacious mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today. This theoretical mass was proposed…
Scientists discover a way simulate the Universe on a laptop
As astronomers gather more data than ever before, studying the cosmos has become an increasingly complex task. A…
“Really bizarre” quantum discovery defies the rules of physics
Lu Li, a physicist who studies advanced materials, knows that people often want to hear how his research…
Ultra-broadband wide-angle anti-reflection scheme utilizing multi-layer resonant metasurfaces
When light transitions from one medium to another, differences in refractive indices cause partial reflection which reduces the…
Chasing and splashing molecules create resilient order from apparent chaos, study shows
Non-reciprocal interactions drive large-scale collective motion, where one species chases the other forming spatiotemporal patterns. Credit: Max Planck…
Fractional quantization in insulators from Hall to Chern
Klitzing, K. V., Dorda, G. & Pepper, M. New method for high-accuracy determination of the fine-structure constant based…
Einstein might have been wrong about black holes
Black holes are often described as cosmic gluttons, consuming everything that drifts too close — including light itself.…
Spins influence solid oxygen’s crystal structure under extreme magnetic fields, study finds
A cartoon image of PINK-02 and the photos of the portable generation of 110 T in the beamline…