A single, oblique collision may have transformed Deimos from an ordinary fragment of the early Solar System into the smooth,...

A review explains how three-dimensional non-local thermodynamic equilibrium radiation-transfer models can improve interpretations of stars, exoplanets, and kilonovae.

Physicists have assembled one of the most wide-ranging theoretical portraits yet of two of nature’s most tightly bound objects: charmonium,...

Researchers have developed and tested a low-cost pyramidal solar sensor that offers a wide field of view, commercial-comparable accuracy and...

A model tested with sand, ice, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide estimates the gas flow needed to keep drill cuttings moving...

Water ice scattered across the Solar System could determine where humanity builds its first long-term footholds beyond Earth. At the...

Solar Flares Can Launch Coronal Shock Waves Without Exploding Into Space A solar flare can send a shock wave racing...

A New Gravity Theory Could Rewrite the Early Universe’s Cosmic Clumpiness A speculative modification of Einstein’s theory of gravity is...

A meteor can cross the atmosphere in a fraction of a second, yet the exact speed assigned to it may...

A new €9.7 million research project at Germany’s GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the FAIR accelerator center is set to...