Space

A major updated review lays out how coupled magnetic, thermal and rotational modeling is finally unifying the bewildering diversity of...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system and the closest to the Sun, has been quietly shrinking for billions...

Researchers have unveiled BlockFLEX, a block-based hybrid routing architecture that keeps low-Earth-orbit mega-constellation networks efficient and resilient even when up...

A new thermodynamic review finds that molten salt electrolysis is the most energy-efficient route to lunar aluminum and oxygen, but...

The Sun's corona has long been a puzzle factory for physicists, and the looping magnetic structures that arch through its...

Mathematicians have uncovered a subtle but fundamental failure in one of the technical pillars of Lorentzian geometry, with consequences for...

A new theoretical analysis has delivered an unsettling verdict on some of the most popular modern interpretations of quantum mechanics:...

POLAR-2, the successor to the pioneering POLAR gamma-ray polarimeter that flew aboard China's Tiangong-2 space laboratory, is preparing for deployment...

For decades, one of the deceptively simple problems in celestial mechanics has been this: given an irregularly shaped body of...

When the James Webb Space Telescope turned its mirrors toward a faint, icy body drifting in the outer Solar System...