The net force is the vector sum of all individual forces acting on an object. It represents the overall effect of all forces ...

Sally knew that water has a known density (approximately 1 gram per milliliter at room temperature). This knowledge allowed her to determine the volume of water by measuring its mass using an ...

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A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of gravity. The discovery is an important step toward the observation of dark matter ...

Quantum physics may be the secret ingredient for understanding cosmic objects that our telescopes cannot show us in detail, or at all. To understand space, we collect and analyse light that travels ...

Driving a spacecraft around a planet isn’t anything like driving on a planet. A physicist explains orbital navigation.

Imagine shining a flashlight through a window with a tiny chip in the glass. On the wall behind the window, the beam would show a small kink where the chip bends the light. Astronomers just did ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

New analysis of online videos, satellite images and eyewitness accounts has painted a chilling picture of atrocities ...