Physics World is delighted to announce its top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2023, which ranges from research in astronomy...

Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found evidence...

A rare system of six exoplanets, all smaller than Neptune but larger than Earth, has...

Humane debuted its much-hyped Ai Pin, and it produced some glaring factual errors during the launch demonstration last week. Cofounder Imran Chaudhri touted the...

IntroductionWhen Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed with...

If you have ever attempted to do a clean dive into a pool and get...

Astronomers get to ask some of the most fundamental questions there are, ranging from whether we’re alone in the cosmos to what the nature...

The first full-colour images of the cosmos taken by the €1.4bn Euclid mission have been released today...

Physicists in Japan and Lithuania have found evidence that tellurium is produced in neutron star...

IntroductionFor most of humankind’s existence, Earth was the only known ocean-draped world, seemingly unlike any other cosmic isle. But in 1979, NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft...

It’s been 30 years since a group of scientists led by Carl Sagan found evidence for life on Earth using data from instruments on...

Victoria Grinberg, who is the first “liaison scientist” at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands, talks to Hamish Johnston about...