One of Jupiter’s most recognizable attributes is its sheer size.With a diameter over 88,800 miles, our solar system’s largest planet is 11 times as wide as Earth and twice as massive as all ...

A research team succeeds in solving a decade-old physical puzzle: the question of the fate of angular momentum during the ultrafast demagnetization of nickel crystals by laser light.

The objective in the OBELIX project is to create new and efficient technologies using readily available materials, thereby focusing on the generation, manipulation, and exploitation of so-called ...

A study examines angular momentum constraints on the formation and orbital evolution of the Moon. Proposed scenarios for the Moon's formation typically involve a giant impact that would have left ...

Conservation of angular momentum explains why an ice skater spins more rapidly as she pulls her arms in. As her arms come closer to her axis of rotation, her speed increases and her angular ...

If the spinning were to stop, the angular momentum of every object on Earth would rip the surface apart, resulting in a really, really bad day. "This is just a thought experiment," said James ...

Slowing Earth’s rotation in turn speeds up the Moon’s orbit, which must expand to conserve the total momentum of the Earth-Moon system. The Moon is moving away from Earth at about 1.49 inches ...

To better understand angular momentum loss, Bellan studied the trajectories of individual atoms, ions and gas in an accretion disk and, in turn, how particles behave during and after collisions.

There’s something new to look for in the heavens, and it’s called a “synestia,” according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, ...

The L1551 cloud is a star forming region which is home to HH30 shown in another superimposed image by Hubble ... velocity components to determine angular momentum ... and planet formation.

Field symmetries and conservation laws are closely associated through Noether's theorem. Light field inhomogeneities lead to changes in linear and angular momenta and, consequently, to radiation ...