Quantum mechanics, the theory which rules the microworld of atoms and particles, certainly has the X factor. Unlike many other areas of physics, it is bizarre and counter-intuitive, which makes it dazzling and intriguing. When the 2022 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for research shedding light

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a glowing disc of debris left over from planet formation around a nearby star called AU Microscopii The red dwarf star AU Microscopii, or AU Mic, is surrounded by debris left over from the planet formation process. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken pictures of that

The stunning filaments and coils of light that make up the Southern Ring Nebula were shaped by as many as five stars all orbiting one another in a complex dance The Southern Ring Nebula is full of stars. It was once thought that nebulas, huge clouds of gas and debris in space, were created from

Researchers have created a never-before-seen form of ice with a disorganized structure and a density almost exactly that of liquid water. Using ultracold temperatures and some steel ball bearings, scientists have created a brand-new, bizarre form of ice that has the same density of liquid water. The ice, known as medium-density amorphous ice, fits into

It is our best look yet at these weird gravitationally-warped halos of light. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a perfect shot of an “Einstein ring.” The stunning halo is the result of light from a distant galaxy passing through warped space-time surrounding another galaxy aligned between the distant light source and Earth. The

A small, bright object that first flared up in June could be the brightest, most powerful supernova ever spotted by astronomers. If it is indeed a supernova, the object ASASSN-15lh pushes the upper limits of what scientists thought exploding stars were capable of. And if it’s not a supercharged supernova, it may be something even

One of the most anticipated images from the James Webb Space Telescope has finally arrived. With its segmented golden eye, the JWST has gazed deep into the heart of the Eagle Nebula 6,500 light-years away, serving up an incredible infrared view of the famous structures known as the Pillars of Creation. Protruding into the cavity

IBM unveiled its most powerful quantum computer to date at the IBM Summit 2022 on Wednesday. Named “Osprey,” the 433-qubit processor has the largest qubit count of any IBM processor and is triple the size of the company’s previously record-breaking 127-qubit Eagle processor. “The new 433 qubit ‘Osprey’ processor brings us a step closer to

On Tuesday, the world’s largest particle accelerator was turned on once again. After three years of upgrades and maintenance, it immediately observed three exotic particles for the first time. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is now up and running, and breaking records for the highest energy particle collisions ever performed. It’s all pretty exciting, with

“The postal service has found space-themed stamps to be an extremely popular subject.” The Space Foundation has given its stamp of approval to the United States Postal Service (USPS) and its 75 years of space-themed postage. The nonprofit foundation, which was established in 1983 to support a global space ecosystem, is recognizing the U.S. mail

The telescope is ‘new, different, and exciting’ for Judy Schmidt, who has been working with space images for a decade. A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes. The appropriately named “Phantom Galaxy” glows eerily in a new image by Judy Schmidt based on James

The 2022 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering experiments in quantum mechanics, the theory covering the micro-world of atoms and particles. Alain Aspect from Université Paris-Saclay in France, John Clauser from J.F. Clauser & Associates in the US, and Anton Zeilinger from University of Vienna in Austria,

Black holes are bizarre things, even by the standards of astronomers. Their mass is so great it bends space around them so tightly that nothing can escape, even light itself. And yet, despite their famous blackness, some black holes are quite visible. The gas and stars these galactic vacuums devour are sucked into a glowing

A team led by physicists from Oxford University analyzed data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and discovered that a subatomic particle can switch between matter and antimatter, a report by New Atlas explained. Antimatter, which is differentiated by having the opposite charge to normal matter, is composed of the antiparticles of normal matter. Some

Astronomers monitoring the sky recently received a major surprise. They discovered a massive galaxy around our own in an area previously unexplored. It popped up, apparently, out of nowhere. So how could the galaxy, dubbed as Crater 2, accomplish this feat, much like a deer bursting from intergalactic bushes to look us down through our

The founders of quantum mechanics understood it to be deeply, profoundly weird. Albert Einstein, for one, went to his grave convinced that the theory had to be just a steppingstone to a more complete description of nature, one that would do away with the disturbing quirks of the quantum. Then in 1964, John Stewart Bell

It’s not every day you get to rediscover the words of a world-famous thinker, an influencer of Albert Einstein himself. A nearly 20-minute video interview with the ‘father of the Big Bang’ was found in the archives of a public-service broadcaster called Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), located in the Flemish region of Belgium. Watching

The Universe was simply different when it was younger. Recently astronomers have discovered that complex physics in the young cosmos may have led to the development of supermassive stars, each one weighing up to 100,000 times the mass of the Sun. We currently have no observations of the formation of the first stars in the