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...

IntroductionTo harbor life, at least as we know it, a planet must orbit a star that is relatively calm and stable. The planet’s orbit...

To describe Federico Capasso at Harvard University as a prolific researcher is an understatement and I have been following his work in photonics for...

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...

Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) An international team of astronomers, led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, have used the MeerKAT...

Jan 18, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Although dark matter makes up 27% of the universe, astronomers have been unable to observe it directly. Now, in a new...

Jan 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller...

HELSINKI — India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory has reached its destination orbit around Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Aditya-L1 entered orbit...

Jan 06, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue and Uranus green – but a new study has revealed that...

From the fastest woman to run across the US to the mechanics of dancing peanuts, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year....

HELSINKI — Japan’s SLIM robotic spacecraft entered lunar orbit Dec. 25, setting up a moon landing attempt scheduled for Jan. 19. SLIM completed a roughly...

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...