The flickering quasar is from the universe's infancy, when it was just 850 million years old.

A quasar from the universe’s first 850 million years has started to look less like a distant pinprick and more like a real ...

Physicist Eva Andrei, whose groundbreaking research could lead to ultrafast computer chips, highly accurate medical imaging sensors, and more energy-efficient power grids, received the 2026 Kavli ...

The Rutgers professor is one of three physicists headed to Norway to split the $1 million prize after an awards ceremony with ...

Assistant Professor Haocun Yu is something of a scientific diplomat. In a recent Physical Review Letters publication, she and ...

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have detected a quasar flickering from the very early universe. This artist’s concept illustrates a quasar accretion disk. A supermassive black hole lies at the heart ...

MIT and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have announced plans to establish the Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT, ...

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) announced the company has published five peer-reviewed physics basis papers detailing its ...

A new MIT-designed lidar chip uses specially engineered antennas to reduce interference and widen the sensor’s field of view.

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

We asked our graduating physics and engineering physics students what advice they had for other students, what's next after CU, and what they will carry with them into their next chapter. The best ...