Wet or dry? Study with ties to Florida Tech could explain what NASA telescopes cannot

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

Plan to reflect sunlight to power solar panels at night upsets astronomers

The startup Reflect Orbital aims to keep solar farms running at night by reflecting sunlight from space and has sparked ...

30 years after 51 Pegasi b: How the exoplanet revolution redefined our place in the universe

Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor ...

Trio win Nobel prize for revealing quantum physics in action

U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action", paving the way for the development of ...

Nobel physics prize awarded for pioneering experiments that paved the way for quantum computers

The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in ...

2025 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for macroscale quantum tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.