This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. The achievement garnered a ...

NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory, a facility for fundamental physics experiments on the International Space Station, recently underwent a major hardware upgrade with the help of astronauts Christina Koch ...

Aug. 13 (UPI) --For the first time, ultra-cold atoms have been used to detect changes in the surrounding environment in space, taking a step of revolutionizing how quantum science can be used. A new ...

A new study released on Tuesday examines the use of NASA's Cold Atom Lab (pictured) on the International Space Station. File Photo courtesy of NASA Aug. 13 (UPI) --For the first time, ultra-cold atoms ...

The agency’s Cold Atom Lab is getting its second major upgrade and will be using it to explore the quantum realm. On Tuesday, Aug. 1, a major hardware update for NASA’s Cold Atom Lab lifted off aboard ...

NASA is experimenting with the use of quantum technology to measure gravity, magnetic fields, and other forces in space. The space agency just tested a brand new tool on board the International Space ...

NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, shown where it’s installed aboard the International Space Station, recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer that can precisely measure gravity and ...

Here's one of the coolest sentences you'll ever read: The International Space Station will soon be the coldest place in the known universe. A new instrument that will be sent to the ISS, called the ...

A member of the Cold Atom Lab mission team works on the Quantum Observer Module. The lab is a quantum science facility that’s been operating on the International Space Station since 2018. This module ...