Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

Photons, for centuries both a puzzle and a tool, continue to help scientists illuminate nature at the smallest and largest ...

LISA is the major ESA scientific mission that will observe the Universe by detecting the gravitational waves that traverse it ...

For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may ...

Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don't realize there could be some very interesting physics ...