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Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

In Millikan's experiment, an oil drop became a microscopic messenger, revealing the quantized nature of electric charge, a cornerstone of modern physics. This ingenious experiment, conducted by Robert ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

On Mars, winds constantly stir up whirlwinds of fine dust. It was at the center of two of these dust devils that the SuperCam ...

The evidence is not visual, as we might expect when we picture lightning. Instead, it is audio recordings from the SuperCam ...

Hybrid materials made of magnets and superconductors give rise to fascinating quantum phenomena, which are so sensitive that ...

A microphone on NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded the sounds of electrical discharges generated by dusty gusts.