A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.

A football-field-sized balloon drifting above the Ross Ice Shelf has just turned Antarctica into one of the most ambitious listening posts in modern astrophysics. Over 23 days aloft, a University of ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a strange pulsar, PSR J1745-2900, appears to be circling close enough to feel that ...

Before the RHIC shut down, it was the only operational particle collider in the U.S. and one of two heavy-ion colliders in the world, the other being the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...

In November, Quanta magazine published a feature on the detection of “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...