Physicists know that something unseen is sculpting the cosmos, outweighing ordinary matter by roughly a factor of five, yet every detector built so far has come up empty. One of the most audacious ...

Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor.

Quantum theory fails to explain how the reality we experience emerges from the world of particles. A new take on quantum ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.

Physicists have determined that most of the universe is dark matter -- invisible to us but affecting the universe anyway.

November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration ...

Simple chemistry could give the reindeer his famously bright snout. But physics would make it look different colors from the ground.

The European Space Agency's Euclid mission—designed to map the geometry of the dark universe with unprecedented ...

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2025 — AIP and the National Society of Black Physicists congratulate Stacyann Nelson as the winner of the 2025 Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence. Christian Aganze is also ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over the cause of a mysterious “glow” of very high energy gamma radiation emanating from the ...