Twin satellites are part of this GRACE mission. This orbited Earth in tandem to identify subtle gravity changes. As a result of shifting ocean masses or melting ice sheets, these changes generally ...

Born in Kiel, Germany, in 1858, Max Planck grew up in a family that valued hard work and tradition. Planck went off to study ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Under normal circumstances, your light cone (and thus your world line) remains fixedly pointed toward the future. However, we ...

Imagine a liquid that dances with a magnet! That’s ferrofluid — a mix of millions of tiny iron particles suspended in liquid. When exposed to a magnetic field, it forms spiky, alien-like shapes that ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

We know the Earth’s inner core is largely solid, which sets a ceiling on its temperature, and in turn, how much heat dark ...

With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

The scientific Nobels announced this week — in Physiology or Medicine, Physics and Chemistry — honored achievements rooted in ...

Researchers have discovered there was an anomaly in Earth's gravitational field between 2006 and 2008, potentially caused by ...

Using a global network of telescopes, astronomers have detected the lowest-mass dark object yet found in the universe.