STP-H7, launched on Dec. 21, 2021, is a U.S. Space Force science experiment installed on the International Space Station to collect data. Credit: U.S. Space Force WASHINGTON — The Space Force is ...

A chameleon-like force that shifts its nature based on its environment could explain a major physics quandary: how the mysterious substance called dark energy is compelling the cosmos to expand faster ...

Physicists are closing in on a strange, hidden influence that does not fit neatly into the four familiar forces of nature, and the search is reshaping how detectors are built and where they are ...

To help advance the development of a data-driven and automated kill chain, the U.S. Air Force’s 805th Combat Training Squadron, or Shadow Operations Center-Nellis (ShOC-N), completed Experiment 3, a ...

While many of the experiments it will conduct in the coming months are classified, the Space Force has identified space-based laser communications and quantum sensing as two of its focus areas.

Artist’s rendering of the Air Force Research Laboratory Demonstration and Science Experiments spacecraft on-orbit with its 80-meter and 16-meter antenna booms extended. (Image/W. Robert Johnston, AFRL ...

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works — a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and ...