When the SpIRIT CubeSat rode into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 in December 2023, it carried a very massive passenger along. Cramped inside the shoebox-sized satellite is the HERMES detector, an ...

Deeper analysis of the Magellan spectra showed that it has less than 0.005 percent of the Sun’s metal content. It is twice as ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more ...

Nature categorizes particles into two fundamental types: fermions and bosons. While matter-building particles such as quarks and electrons belong to the fermion family, bosons typically serve as force ...

Scientists have observed anyons -- quasiparticles that differ from the familiar fermions and bosons -- in a one-dimensional quantum system for the first time. The results may contribute to a better ...

The part of the Universe we can observe appears perfectly flat: this implies, among other things, that going straight ahead ...