Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed...

IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this...

Physics isn’t a popularity contest, but the 10 most read articles published on the Physics World website in 2023 nevertheless make an interesting collection...

IntroductionBy one metric, this year’s biggest physics news happened 80 years ago. Yet while the success of a movie about the making of the...

IntroductionEarth’s fate rests on a coin flip. In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an...

IntroductionOn December 11, 2021, a beam of gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — slammed into NASA’s Swift satellite. Within 120...

Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...

Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found evidence that interstellar oxygen was far more abundant in many...

Dec 02, 2023 (Nanowerk News) It first appeared as a glowing blob from ground-based telescopes and then vanished completely in images from the Hubble Space...

IntroductionWhen Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed with...

Physicists in Japan and Lithuania have found evidence that tellurium is produced in neutron star...

By: Numa Dhamani & Maggie Engler   It's safe to say that AI is having a moment. Ever since OpenAI's conversational agent ChatGPT went unexpectedly viral...