Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...

They have demonstrated that nuclear polarisation does not impede the study of muonic atoms. It clears a major obstacle that ...

MIT team found that orbital capacity is projected to drop 50-66 percent by 2100. This means that popular orbits could become ...

successfully completed 1,000 orbits on March 4. The PSLV-C60 Mission, launched on December 30, 2024, enabled POEM-4 to begin its operations following the successful injection of the SpaDeX spacecraft.

Having a “magic” number of protons or neutrons means there are enough to fully occupy the nuclear valence shells (outermost orbits around the nucleus) in an atom and give it stability.

An experiment bludgeoning special lead atoms with high-speed particles has revealed a shocking surprise. Far from the perfect sphere physicists from the University of Surrey expected to find, the ...

Electrons oscillate around the nucleus of an atom on extremely short timescales, typically completing a cycle in just a few hundred attoseconds (one attosecond is a quintillionth of a second). Because ...