Space & Physics

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun

While there is no immediate danger, this crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit

This next-generation plane is made to go faster than sound without producing a full sonic boom

The Kardashev scale is an interesting but flawed gauge of a civilization’s growth

Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a half-billion years after the big bang

A recent experiment revealed that individual dark points on a light wave can move faster than the wave itself

A physicist explores how poetry, pop culture and imagination help us understand spacetime and our place in the universe

The NASA administrator’s latest remarks in support of reexamining Pluto’s status come 20 years after the orb was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it

Rotating detonation rocket engines work differently than traditional rockets to maximize thrust while using less fuel—an advantage that could help spacecraft explore farther in the solar system

This galaxy, also known as Messier 104, gets its nickname from its central bulge and outer dust trail, which give it a sombrerolike appearance from our vantage point

What NASA’s Curiosity Rover found on Mars, how youth suicides dropped after the launch of the 988 crisis line, and what people think of AI voice clones