In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Businesses near the UPS plane crash site are having to get creative to meet demand while their workplaces remain shut down to traffic. Quantum Ink Company is one such business ...

Professor Adam Sikora is helping advance and popularize the growing field of quantum topology, which connects topology and geometry with quantum physics through surprising cross-fertilization of ideas ...

Quantum computing enterprises IonQ (IONQ) and Rigetti (RGTI) have both witnessed blistering performances, with the former gaining 42% on a year-to-date basis and the latter swinging up a remarkable ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

A US military spaceplane, the X-37B orbital test vehicle embarked on its eighth flight into space on Thursday. Much of what the X-37B does in space is secret. But it serves partly as a platform for ...

SpaceX launches a Boeing-made X-37B space plane on a U.S. Space Force mission with its return date undisclosed. Photo: Jennifer Briggs/Zuma Press A Pentagon spaceplane called X-37B zoomed into orbit ...

On August 21, 2025, a small but powerful space plane will once again head into orbit, carrying with it experiments that could redefine how humans travel through space. The X-37B, a reusable orbital ...