What makes something quantum? This question has kept a small but dedicated fraction of the world’s population – most of them ...

The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

Meet the female scientists who defied odds, broke barriers, and made groundbreaking discoveries that shaped our world.

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A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Creating and sustaining fusion reactions—essentially recreating star-like conditions on Earth—is extremely difficult, and Nathan Howard, Ph.D., a principal research scientist at the MIT Plasma Science ...

In a nutshell Scientists have mapped the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time, ...

Sloan Research fellowships support promising early-career scientists and scholars to continue leading in their fields.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

Panch has been conveniently absent throughout this whole time,” said an internal email an NSF worker sent to fellow ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

With the addition of Huang and Zhang, Johns Hopkins University has now had 89 Sloan Research Fellows since the award's ...