This diagram shows the path Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), or K1, took as it swung past the sun and began its journey out of the ...

Physics departments chairs around the country have expressed feelings of demoralization, decreased productivity, and a reduced capacity for graduate students as a result of policy changes. These ...

"Sometimes the best science happens by accident,” Co-investigator John Noonan, a research professor in the Department of Physics at Auburn University in Alabama, said in a statement.

This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a fundamental issue in physics: the hierarchy problem. There are several ongoing ...

Space scientists have captured a comet breaking into pieces by accident. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope witnessed the incredibly rare event while searching for another cosmic target. The comet K1, ...

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 ...

New faculty member Anton Artemyev is bringing his award-winning research in space physics to The University of Texas at Arlington, strengthening the University’s growing presence in space science and ...

Sally Ride devoted nearly 20 years to teaching physics at UC San Diego, forming a deep and lasting bond with the university's mission and spirit. It was only natural, then, that three years after her ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe completed its 27th close approach to the Sun on March 11, again matching its record distance of 3.8 million miles (6.2 million kilometers) from the solar surface.

Two research teams at the University of Colorado Boulder are working on separate projects that could protect astronauts in ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of a comet breaking apart that could offer new insights into the early days of the universe.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged ...