Simply put, gravity makes the whole universe move in ways that may seem crazy at first, but once it is better understood, it is very orderly. Once you understand these factors wel ...

Reliably guiding and capturing optical waves is central to the functioning of various contemporary technologies, including communication and information processing systems. The most conventional ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Physicists have discovered a tiny asteroid, about one kilometer wide, that is locked into the same orbit as Earth—only the second such cosmic body of its type that has been identified to date. And now ...

About 250 years ago, mathematicians wrote the first equations describing where the James Webb Space Telescope, launched on Christmas Day 2021, now resides. Webb will stay put for around 20 years at ...

India’s Aditya-L1 probe will arrive in a few days at a patch of space between Earth and the sun, almost a million miles away. The location is remote yet isn’t very lonely. Four active spacecraft are ...

From the first satellite in orbit, to the first human in space, to the first steps on the moon, the United States government has always framed space exploration as a race. As U.S.-China space ...