Buckhannon-Upshur Middle School student Ben McCune won first place at the West Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair in the Physics & Astronomy Division. His project, “Wheee!

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

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Breakthrough discovery provides new clues about how these celestial bodies - that push the known laws of physics to their limits - find each other.

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

Professor Dame Carole Jordan, who has died aged 84, was an astrophysicist recognised internationally as an authority on the outer parts of the solar atmosphere known as the solar corona, and ...

My academic path studying physics at Tsinghua University began in 1981 where I completed a Bachelor’s and Master’s before earning a PhD in 1992. I then did a postdoc at the Central Iron & Steel ...

Paul Howarth, president of the Institute of Physics, says ‘constructive dialogue’ with the government is needed, or the country risks losing the next generation of scientists.

French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier was a tutor and an assistant at the Paris Observatory when the director, François Arago, asked him to investigate irregularities in Uranus' orbit. Using extensive, ...

Electron movement and structures described in quantum physics allow researchers to better understand how and why materials like superconductors behave as they do. Rice University researchers Jianwei ...

Students from Brown’s Astronomy Club and an introductory astronomy class gathered at the observatory atop the Barus & Holly ...

Every year, AIP awards physical scientists for their leadership and excellence. In recognition of women in the physical ...