Tianwen-2 asteroid mission closes to within 20 kilometers of Kamoʻoalewa on July 4, 2026 — China‘s first sample-return probe ...

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival launched in 1974 as an out-of-the-way town party for locals on the Fourth of July. A year ...

Everything around us, from atoms and molecules to planets and galaxies, is governed by two extraordinarily successful ...

The International Space Station is now home to an even more capable quantum laboratory, where NASA cools atoms to nearly ...

Gravity is the force with which we’re most familiar. It’s what’s keeping you on the planet, even as you’re reading this.

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

In 1973, John Archibald Wheeler described the relationship between space and matter in two sentences: “Space acts on matter, telling it how to move. In turn, matter reacts back on space, telling it ...

Researchers have designed a quantum version of a pendulum clock. It could shed light on timekeeping in the quantum realm ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and reveal the ultimate fuzziness of time ...

Scientists have achieved something that once sounded almost impossible: using ordinary sunlight to create quantum-linked photon pairs, a phenomenon normally dependent on precise laboratory lasers. By ...

(CNN) — Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds planets in orbit. The pursuit was ...