Future space missions could use quantum technologies to help us understand the physical laws that govern the universe, explore the composition of other planets and their moons, gain insights into ...

U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers have developed a patent-pending Continuous 3D-Cooled Atom Beam Interferometer derived from a patented cold and continuous beam of atoms to explore atom ...

NASA's upgraded Cold Atom Lab came back online aboard the International Space Station this week — the fourth and final hardware overhaul of a facility that has spent eight years turning the ISS into ...

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 ...

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 ...

The trouble with listening for the faintest events in the universe is that your own instrument often drowns them out. However ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sandia National Laboratories scientist Jongmin Lee, left, prepares a rubidium cold-atom cell for an atom interferometry experiment while scientists Ashok Kodigala, right, and Michael Gehl initialize ...

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has organized domestic research teams to achieve breakthroughs in two key measurement technologies, including cold-atom interferometry gravity ...

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 ...