As the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, 3I/ATLAS is prime for new discoveries. It was first identified in July and will travel closest to Earth in December.

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Claudio Chamon will join the Purdue University College of Science beginning fall 2025. Photo by Frank Curran. Quantum science is the next frontier in scientific achievement and Purdue University is ...

This Star Trek concept ignited a dream that humans could one day travel faster than the speed of light. Now physicists are ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...