Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

What is the temperature in space? It's a far more complicated question than it seems. Because space is considered a vacuum, which means it's empty, it has no temperature. But the objects traveling ...

The moon may seem like a cold, lifeless rock. But how cold does it actually get on the lunar surface? What is the temperature of the moon? Actually, it's not that cold — at least, not all the time. As ...

Mission-critical hardware used in space is not supposed to fail at all, because lives may be lost in addition to resources, availability, performance, and budgets. For space applications, failure can ...

Most of today’s leading theoretical physicists have a shared perspective about what the next revolution in physics will look like. They think reconciling Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity ...

The first time a physicist told me they wanted to get rid of space-time, on a cold January morning earlier this year, I stopped typing my interview notes and clutched my New Scientist mug of tea.

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...