Stories by Elizabeth Gibney

Researchers have spent decades searching for the elusive particles. A final generation of detectors should leave them no place to hide

Celebration is tinged with relief as $200-million orbiter embarks on 7-month odyssey to the Red Planet

Close-up reveals a surface dancing with ‘campfires’

The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country. Will the momentum last?

European particle-physics lab will pursue a 100-kilometer machine to uncover the Higgs boson’s secrets — but it doesn’t yet have the funds

Physicists have made a Bose–Einstein condensate on the International Space Station—allowing them to probe the mysteries of quantum physics in detail

A reduction in seismic noise because of changes in human activity is a boon for geoscientists

A planetary alignment provides a window to visit Uranus and Neptune—but time is tight

Europe’s space agency is set to receive 45% more money than in the previous three-year budget

The science is immature, and a multipurpose quantum computer doesn’t yet exist. But that isn’t stopping investors from pouring cash into quantum start-ups

The company says that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine

Canadian telescope finds eight more repeating blasts—energetic events from deep in the cosmos

Despite progress, many physical scientists from sexual and gender minorities experience exclusion or harassment at work, finds UK survey

Projects will probe topics including DNA mutation, fire behavior and the birth of stars

Spacecraft will return samples to Earth and be open to researchers around the world

Misaligned stacks of the wonder material exhibit superconductivity and other curious properties

An Israeli firm is sending a privately built craft to the moon—and leading a fresh era of exploration

Physicist Wang Yifang, the mastermind behind the project, gives Nature an update on the ambitious project

The prize-awarding academies are making changes to their secretive nomination processes to tackle bias, but some say the measures don’t go far enough

Twin probes from Hayabusa2 mission have sent back their first pictures from Ryugu’s surface

Haul thrills physicists, who previously knew of just a few hundred of these peculiar materials

The ubiquitous particles are helping to map the innards of pyramids and volcanoes, and spot missing nuclear waste

NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory will allow physicists to play with quantum phenomena like never before

Physicists see the hallmarks of cosmic expansion in a ring of cold atoms