Physics

Reel Science

Star Trek's Science Advisor On How Starfleet Quietly Fixed Relativity

ByRyan Britt
Science

Climate Change is Triggering an Unexpected and Fundamental Planetary Change

ByLauren Leffer
Science

Astronomers Stumbled Upon a Planet In the Act of Becoming a Hot Jupiter

ByKiona Smith
Space

There's a Black Hole Hidden in this Photo of a Digested Dwarf Galaxy

ByKiona Smith
Space

We Might Witness A Star Explode Soon — And It’s Not Betelgeuse

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Found Strange, Sparkling Balls That Might Have Helped Light Up the Universe

ByKiona Smith
Space

June’s Summer Solstice Strawberry Moon Will Be Weirder Than Usual

ByKiona Smith
Space

Elusive Fast Radio Bursts In Space Probably Come From the Most Ordinary Galaxies

ByKiona Smith
Space

'The Acolyte' Got Fire In Space Ridiculously Wrong — In Real Life, It's So Much Weirder

ByKiona Smith
Space

This Hot, Inflated Alien World is Good News for Future Earth

ByKiona Smith
Space

The ESA’s Swarm Satellites Recorded “Something Peculiar” In The Northern Sky

ByKiona Smith
space

New Data from JWST Reveals How Galaxies Grew In the Early Universe

ByKiona Smith
space

This Solar Probe Just Helped To Trace The Origins Of Space Weather

ByKiona Smith
Space

The 'Star Trek: Discovery' Series Finale Features Ridiculously Weird But Real Physics

ByKiona Smith
Science

What Actually Happened To The ‘Doomsday Glacier?’ Here’s What Satellite Data Shows

ByLauren Leffer
Space

Physicists Just Discovered Something Radical About the Sun’s Magnetic Field

ByKiona Smith
Science

A Radical New Experiment Used Synthetic Quartz To Capture Artificial Heat

ByKiona Smith
Science

The Sun Is Experiencing a 'Potentially Historic' Eruption — With Possible Serious Consequences for Earth

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Reel Science

Apple’s ‘Dark Matter’ Should Change the Way We All Think About The Multiverse

ByKiona Smith
Space

Look! This Strange Cosmic Cloud Looks Like a Dinosaur

ByKiona Smith
Space

A Simple Chemical Reaction May Have Wiped Out Venus's Once Watery Clouds

ByKiona Smith
Science

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory Just Detected A Rare ‘Relic’ of the Big Bang

ByThe Conversation and Doug Cowen
Space

Whoa! The Webb Telescope Zoomed Way into the Iconic Horsehead Nebula

ByKiona Smith
Space

A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

ByKiona Smith
Space

Physicists Just Mapped A Stellar, Galactic Burp of Astronomical Proportions

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Rogue Waves: New Tech Captured This Elusive, Freakish Phenomenon In Ocean Waves

ByAlessandro Toffoli and The Conversation
space

The Solar System’s Most Volcanic Moon Has Been This Way For Billions Of Years

ByKiona Smith
Space

Is Dark Matter Real? Inside the Theories That Leave This Mysterious Phenomenon Out

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Just Used A Bizarre New Method To Capture Evidence of Elusive Stellar Winds

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

60 Years Ago, a Famous Physicist Made a Prediction that Changed Our Understanding Of the Universe

ByHarald Fox and The Conversation
Space

5 Years After the First Black Hole Image, Physicists Unveil A New Experiment To Map Space-Time

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Science

Inside the Outlandish Space Project to Construct a Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon

ByKiona Smith
Science

This Easy, Free App Helps Take Beautiful Pictures of the Eclipse From Your Phone

ByKiona Smith
Space

Astronomers Just Noticed Something Bizarre About Elderly Galaxies

ByKiona Smith
Space

Hubble Scrutinized Hundreds of Newborn Stars to Untangle How Galaxies Evolve

ByKiona Smith
Space

Elusive “Ghost” Particles from Space May Solve A Longstanding Mystery In Quantum Physics

ByKiona Smith
Science

The Record Of Ancient Eclipses Offers Strange Clues About Our Modern Planet

ByThe Conversation and Sarah Sadavoy
Science

“Brilliant Engineering:” The Untold Story Of Plastic And The Quest To Make It Sustainable

ByBoyce Upholt and Knowable Magazine
Space

Look! Scientists Uncover the Remains of a Collapsed Volcano On Mars

ByKiona Smith
Science

Physicists Just Measured Gravity on the Smallest Scale Ever By Using a Promising New Technique

BySam Baron and The Conversation
Space

“Something doesn’t add up”: The Webb Telescope Identified Premature Supermassive Back Holes

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Uncovered The Oldest ‘Nearly Dead’ Galaxy Astronomers Have Ever Seen

ByKiona Smith
Space

Jupiter's Icy Moon Europa May Be Missing a Key Ingredient for Life

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Uncovered A Possible Explanation for Why Giant Gaseous Planets Often Fail

ByKiona Smith
space

Dwarf Galaxies Made the Early Universe Visible

ByKiona Smith
Space

The Webb Telescope Just Solved a 37-Year-Old Space Explosion Mystery

ByKiona Smith
Space

A Backbone Holding Up the Milky Way Is Bending — Astronomers Don't Know Why

ByKiona Smith
The Superhero Issue

Who's the best superhero of all time? Science reveals the surprising answer

BySaqib Haroon
The Inverse Awards

The 12 Most Mind-Blowing Science Breakthroughs of 2023

ByElana Spivack
The Inverse Awards

2023 Ignited a New Era For Nuclear Fusion. 2024 Could Be Even Brighter

ByRahul Rao