The Parker Solar Probe flew within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface, the closest any spacecraft has ever gone.

Jason Kalirai, an astrophysicist and space mission area executive at APL, has been selected as a fellow by the American ...

Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...

Quantum computing promises to solve complex problems exponentially faster than a classical computer, by using the principles ...

Andrew Merkle has been selected as the new head of the Research and Exploratory Development Department, or REDD, at the Johns ...

As head of the Research and Exploratory Development Department, Merkle will accelerate innovation and collaborate with APL’s ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves—found throughout the universe—are able to ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds.

Retirements and reassignments have led to a reshuffling of leadership in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be. Everything in the universe is, quite literally ...

A turbulent month at Applied Therapeutics is being capped off with the departure of CEO and chair Shoshana Shendelman, Ph.D., mere days after she and the company were named in a proposed class ...

Physics-related discussions on X (formerly known as Twitter) are pale shadows of what they used to be, but lively chatter did ensue from one bit of physics news, when Scientific American reported that ...