NCCR SPIN focuses on creating scalable spin qubits in semiconductor nanostructures made of silicon and germanium, with the ...

Planetary scientists have proposed a solution to the centuries-old problem of why the Moon’s far side bulges at its equator. Ian Garrick-Bethell and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

SpinLaunch is ditching rockets and using centrifugal force to throw satellites into orbit — and it might just change space ...

In our Solar System, the planetary orbits all have a similar orientation. Their orbital planes vary by a few degrees, but roughly the planets all orbit in the same direction. This invariable plane, as ...

Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

EmDrive is back in the news. Someone finally decided to put the so-called "impossible space engine" to the test in orbit. This is the engine that doesn't use any propellant but seems to generate small ...

Although tiny, a proton takes up a finite amount of space, enough to fit three quarks, a host of virtual particles, and their associated gluons. The size of a proton’s radius is determined by these ...

Hey, physicists and materials scientists: You'd better reevaluate your work if you study iridium-based materials -- members of the platinum family -- when they are ultra-thin. Iridium 'loses its ...