Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out.

Gravity, as most people understand it, is the familiar force that pulls a falling apple toward Earth. But for astronomers and ...

A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our ...

Submarines operate for weeks or months beneath the ocean surface, cut off from the satellite signals that guide nearly every ...

A photon emitted from a star a billion light-years away arrives at a telescope having experienced no time whatsoever. Not ...

What took scientists a century to solve a 100-year-old Physics related mystery, AI has solved it in seconds. Researchers from the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have ...

The currents of the oceans, the roiling surface of the sun and the clouds of smoke billowing off a forest fire—all are governed by the same laws of physics, and give rise to a complex phenomenon known ...

The conventional approaches to solving typical problems in college physics, such as the catenary (an extremum problem) and molecular collision problems, are often abstract, making them difficult for ...

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours. When ...

While atmospheric turbulence is a familiar culprit of rough flights, the chaotic movement of turbulent flows remains an unsolved problem in physics. To gain insight into the system, a team of ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...