Physics & Astronomy

Physics & Astronomy

Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real

With NASA's Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we find them nearby, a new…

Physics & Astronomy

Everlasting Quantum Wave: NIST Physicists Predict New Form of Soliton in Ultracold Gases

Expected to be found in certain types of ultracold gases, the new soliton would not be just a low-temperature atomic curiosity, it also may provide profound…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen

The needle-in-a-haystack object found by Hubble is only 3,200 feet across and a whopping 4.2 billion miles away. The smallest Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) seen…

Physics & Astronomy

Astronomers Discover Super-Earth With Icy Heart and Thick Atmosphere

It is the second time a transiting super-Earth has been detected, after the recent discovery of the planet Corot-7b [3]. A transit occurs when the planet's…

Physics & Astronomy

Exploring the Dark Cloud in Aquila: A Cosmic Mystery

This image shows a dark cloud 1000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. It covers an area 65 light-years across and is so shrouded in dust…

Physics & Astronomy

Swinging a Single Atom: Insights from Everyday Moments

A father pushing his little child on a swing realizes a complex feedback procedure: the signal of the approaching swing is processed in his brain and actuated…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA’s Lunar Mission: New Findings Aid Future Discoveries

At the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, scientists discussed the latest findings from the LRO Camera, or LROC, the Cosmic Ray Telescope for…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's AIM Satellite and Models are Unlocking the Secrets of Mysterious "Night-Shining" Clouds

The AIM measurements have provided the first comprehensive global-scale view of the complex life cycle of these clouds, also called Polar Mesospheric Clouds…

Physics & Astronomy

Queen Mary Scientists Discover Insights on Mysterious Particle

Starting from the end of November, Queen Mary's Particle Physics Research Centre is the sole recipient of the T2K experiment data. The T2K Collaboration is a…

Physics & Astronomy

Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region

The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the…

Physics & Astronomy

University of Toronto Physicists Advance Cooler, Faster Computing

“We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum inside a photonic crystal, we can completely control the electronic state of artificial atoms…

Physics & Astronomy

How erosion formed the Earth-like landscape on Titan, Saturn's moon

Today, at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting, Sklar and his team presented new measurements from tests on ice as cold as minus 170 degrees Celcius…

Physics & Astronomy

Close-up Photos of Dying Star Show Our Sun's Fate

Moreover, it has begun to pulse dramatically in and out, beating like a giant heart. New close-up photos of the surface of this distant star show its throbbing…

Physics & Astronomy

Kansas Scientists Investigate Mysterious Comet Strikes on Earth

It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that…

Physics & Astronomy

New Discoveries Reveal Common Low-Mass Planets Nearby

The researchers, led by Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said the two…

Physics & Astronomy

New Planets Discovered Around Sun-Like Stars

The planets were found by Australian, American and British astronomers using the Anglo-Australian Telescope in New South Wales and the Keck Telescope in…

Feedback