Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

High wire walkers don’t use balance poles for show. The pole lowers their center of mass and increases rotational inertia, ...

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Stevens Institute, Hoboken, reports the universal identity P²+K²=1, uniting polarization with entanglement across setups and ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

High-repetition laser-induced instrument enables kinetic measurements of fluorescent decomposition products as a proxy for ...

A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks ...

2025 MN45 isn't the overall spin-rate record holder. Astronomers have found a number of small asteroids — those just a few ...

Astronomers analyzing data from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Normally, a plane moves along three rotational axes. “Inertia coupling” takes place when the plane inadvertently moves on two at the same time, usually resulting in loss of control.

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...