Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift ...

BEIJING: Chinese scientists have successfully achieved the first direct mass measurement of a free floating object, confirming that it is a planet ...

YALE / BROWN (US) — A scientist’s breakfast sparked new research into how floating objects—like pieces of cereal and tiny colloidal particles—form patterns. Andong He, a postdoctoral student at Yale ...

Radar systems for weather have become so advanced that they can determine the shape of a 6-millimeter raindrop from more than 8 miles away. How, then, did multiple objects recently shot down by ...

Where there's water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? Scientists have now developed a technique to merge waves in a water tank to produce ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...