Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

Spread the loveIn a groundbreaking achievement for planetary defense, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has revealed that its intentional collision with the asteroid Dimorphos in ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

CERN’s accelerator operators have just fired the starting pistol for the last run of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). At the end of June, four years of work will begin to transform the LHC into a high ...

The science of motion can often surprise you - and an inertia experiment could have the opposite results from what you think!

China’s Institute of Modern Physics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is building what it calls the world’s first ...

To ensure seamless integration, CERN has built, in an above-ground test hall, a full-scale test stand called the Inner Triplet String (IT String), which mirrors the underground configuration ( CERN ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

The CMS collaboration compared high-transverse-momentum particle yields in oxygen–oxygen, neon–neon, xenon–xenon and lead–lead collisions.