A research team led by Prof. Shao Dingfu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has ...

On March 16, 1966, the crewed Gemini 8 spacecraft became the first to dock with another spacecraft in space. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and David ...

In 2020, astronomers discovered a violent cosmic event that has led them to rethink how extreme pairs of astronomical objects ...

A newly analyzed gravitational-wave event has revealed something unexpected about one of the Universe’s most violent encounters. Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a black hole and a ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have demonstrated that stacking two quantum materials on top of each other can flip electron spin at room temperature using tiny currents and no ...

Multiferroic metals are materials that exhibit both electric polarization and magnetic order in the same crystal—a state ...

The new study described this "almost unprecedented rate of increase" in the length of an average day as a quantifiable ...

Scientists analyzing a gravitational-wave signal have discovered that a neutron star and black hole spiraled together on an oval-shaped orbit just before merging. This unusual motion, detected in the ...

A memory chip based on stacked quantum materials. Spintronics – a technology that harnesses the electron’s magnetic quantum states to carry information – could pave the way for a new generation of ...

Scientists have found the first strong evidence that a neutron star and a black hole merged while travelling in an oval-shaped orbit ...

The Hubble Space Telescope saw Comet 41P stop spinning completely, and then restart, but in the opposite direction.

Over 100 brides walked into a North Beach bar.