The stillness of freshly fallen snow takes your breath away, and it can dampen your hearing too. Here's why the world goes ...
Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...
Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...
I've read that the planned crewed Mars missions will take six months or two years to arrive. Which is it? Could a longer trip be due to the heavy payload? Our rovers took only eight to nine months to ...
Watching a ski jumper fly through the air might get you wondering, “How do they do that?” The answer is – physics!That’s why ...
An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black ...
You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...
Ripples in space-time from a pair of merging black holes have been recorded in unprecedented detail, enabling physicists to test predictions of general relativity ...