Space Exploration

Why Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin Is So Reviled

Economic inequality, an indulgent trip to space and an ongoing legal battle with NASA are putting the space company in the hot seat

Chelsea Gohd and SPACE.com

Astrophysics

The Physics and Hype of Hypersonic Weapons

These novel missiles cannot live up to the grand promises made on their behalf, aerodynamics shows

David Wright and Cameron Tracy

Black Holes

Singularities Can Exist Outside Black Holes—in Other Universes

Recent work has shown how “naked singularities” might defy the cosmic censorship conjecture

Brendan Z. Foster

Astronomy

Chinese Astronomers Eye Tibetan Plateau Site for Observatory Project

Years of weather monitoring suggest a high-altitude locale in Qinghai Province could host future telescopes

Meghan Bartels and SPACE.com

Cosmology

When Physicists Follow Their Gut

Fred Hoyle and George Gamow were brilliant iconoclasts who reached opposite conclusions about the expanding universe (for the record, Gamow was right)

Paul Halpern | Opinion