Unlike Earth, where the Moon orbits the planet, Pluto and Charon orbit each other, forming a binary system that is more ...

In a significant scientific breakthrough, engineers at Penn Engineering have developed a refined form of nuclear quadrupolar ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Even once researchers can reliably get more power out of a fusion reaction than they put in, they’ll still need to overcome ...

Learn about the miniaturized 5G cellular system being developed through the Standalone On-the-Move Advanced Relay Program.

Using 1/10th scale 3D-printed hula hooping robots and a lot of math, researchers have determined the ideal body shape for ...

It's the late 1990s. Lloyd Hackel and Brent Dane are researchers in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) laser ...

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MUCH like how water turns into ice, some matter undergoes phase transitions that give them fascinating properties, making the ...

Pluto and its largest moon Charon could have come together via a 10-hour “kiss-and-capture” encounter after a grazing ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.

Scientists at Brown University have discovered a new class of quantum particles known as fractional excitons, which exhibit ...