A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those vibrations might sound like a small detail, but in this case they are the ...

Researchers have developed a method that could one day be used to build roads on the moon. The novel approach, described in a proof-of-concept study published in the journal Scientific Reports, would ...

A laser hit the tiny black cube, and it lurched forward almost at once. That split-second jump, caught during a zero-gravity ...

Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be ...

The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute beast. Reading time 3 minutes The ZEUS laser, tucked away (as much as a giant ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — Crews on Florida’s Space Coast may soon be able to probe deeper into space. The advancement is thanks to laser technology embedded in NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Psyche just sent ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The properties of dense helium (He) — which happens to be a principal constituent of giant gas planets like Jupiter — at thermodynamic conditions between those of condensed matter and high-temperature ...

You can gaze upward at night to see a veritable ocean of stars, but the visible parts of the universe are just a fraction of the total. The rest, we think, is dark matter and dark energy, which are by ...

The advancement is thanks to laser technology embedded in NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Psyche just sent back its first data from beyond the moon. If successful, the technology could help NASA communicate ...