A Hiroshima University team has designed a feasible way to detect the Unruh effect, where acceleration turns quantum vacuum ...

A quantum computer has reached new heights. The first quantum computer in space is now orbiting Earth on a satellite, scientists report. Launched on June 23, the computer had to be designed to fit in ...

Purdue University crew is set to make history on a suborbital research flight with Virgin Galactic. Scheduled for launch in ...

The world’s greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for Earth 2.0. The search for extraterrestrial life represents one of humanity’s ...

This September, IMAP — a one-ton NASA spacecraft carrying 10 unique instruments — will launch into space to collect and interpret particles from the Sun and from exploded stars billions of miles ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in physics." The first step toward quantum gravity, the "holy grail of physics," may ...

There is huge promise in AI to transform spacecraft design. From near real-time performance calculations that enable broader design space exploration, to generative algorithms using mission ...

Over 14,000 pieces of junk are clogging up low Earth orbit, but this number could be reduced by a new invention that involves ...

Apr. 23—California professor Bethany Ehlmann will be the first woman to lead the university's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics as its next director, the University of Colorado Boulder ...

Time, not space plus time, might be the single fundamental property in which all physical phenomena occur, according to a new theory by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The theory also ...

About 100 miles up in the sky, where the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere meet, is a region of the Earth’s atmosphere dubbed the “ignorosphere.” Too high for weather balloons to reach and too ...