For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact constantly shifting ...

The Rubin Observatory in Chile has the largest camera ever built – and is set to find objects never before seen by human eyes ...

A conspiracy theory that spread on social media claims that gravity will disappear for seven seconds this August, and that NASA is aware that this will happen. A physics professor explains why this is ...

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court. Scientists slid a shoe against a smooth ...

Have you ever had an idea for something that looked cool, but wouldn't work well in practice? When it comes to designing ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?

An international team of astronomers has employed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to investigate molecular gas in a nearby galaxy known as NGC 1387. Results of the ...

The squeaky sneaker insights could help scientists better understand friction, potentially saving energy — or helping them design squeak-free shoes in the future.

A burst of light in the deep sky is doing something it should not be able to do. It looks like one supernova, but it shows up ...

“The definition of the solar maximum is when the sunspot number is at its highest,” Dr Rachel Howe, a solar physicist at the ...