A newly merged black hole does not become quiet at once. It vibrates, sheds energy through gravitational waves and produces a ...

Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world's largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing ...

The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, vaporized on contact and scattered its remains around the ...

When two massive ships meet in the Houston Ship Channel, staying dead center until the last possible moment isn't recklessness, it's physics. Here's how bank effect, pressure zones, and a bit of radio ...

"I think we're heading towards a situation where there will be a collision involving an operational satellite in the ...

Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to ...

If you needed another reason to think twice before getting behind the wheel after a few too many, Compton just handed you one ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...

Inspecting bridges, creating digital twins, and making self-driving cars safer are just a few uses, but many different industries will find uses for AI models that reason about 3D space.

The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories have added 161 new compact-binary merger candidates to the ...

High-Luminosity LHC upgrade work has begun at CERN after the Large Hadron Collider logged its final collision on June 27, 2026, entering a four-year, $1.5 billion Long Shutdown 3 program to replace 1.