Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

Record-breaking experiment shows that a cluster of thousands of atoms can act like a wave as well as a particle.

Quantum mechanics is rich with paradoxes and contradictions. It describes a microscopic world in which particles exist in a ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Understand perfectly inelastic collisions through a simple clay ball example. This video explains how momentum is conserved while kinetic energy is not, helping you visualize what happens when objects ...

Earth's orbiting satellites are commonly regarded as if they were suspended in mid-air. It is a fact that they actually ...

Our eyes can frequently play tricks on us, but scientists have discovered that some artificial intelligence can fall for the ...

"Do we react for everything which has a chance to reach the ground? Or do we react only for the very large objects, as we did for the Long March?" ...

It won't be long before Colorado State University Pueblo students are not able to major or minor in physics. The Chieftain confirmed with CSU Pueblo Provost Gail Mackin that the physics major and ...

Astronomers have found what could become the first target for a crucial test of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a soon-to-launch observatory that serves as a pathfinder mission for ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...