A new paper 01403-8)sketches a daring plan: launch a wafer-sized spacecraft toward the nearest black hole and let it report ...

Researchers are developing a thorium-229 nuclear clock so sensitive it could detect the faint, wave-like effects of dark matter, potentially solving one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

Physicists are exploring thorium-229’s unique properties to create a nuclear clock so precise it could detect the faintest ...

NASA has previously tested laser communications in space, but Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to attempt such a transmission from deep space. The technology holds the promise of ...

In 1941, Isaac Asimov told the story of Solar Station No. 5, a space station that collected power from the Sun, converted it ...

A laser-powered, AI-designed “potato” lightsail could send a probe to Alpha Centauri in just 20 years. Here’s how it could change space travel forever.

Associate Professor Victoria Miller, Ph.D., and her students, in partnership with DARPA and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, are moving the sheet metal trade into the cosmos. Their mission: make ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface. A lander built by Japanese ...

We depend on them for GPS location, Internet timing, stock trading and even space navigation. In today's encore episode, hosts Emily Kwong and Regina G. Barber learn how to build a better clock.

Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) say they have created the most accurate atomic clock to date — one that can measure time down to the 19th decimal place.