Another Earth or a blip in the data? We may never find out
An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again
Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator
Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time
After all these years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still awesome
The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors
Elon Musk’s SpaceX reportedly mulling a merger with xAI
SpaceX and xAI could join forces ahead of Elon Musk’s plan to take the former public later this year, according to Reuters
The chemical genius of Katharine Burr Blodgett
The story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with at the General Electric Company
JWST spots most distant galaxy ever, pushing the limits of the observable universe
The galaxy MoM-z14 could offer clues to what the universe looked like in its early infancy
For its 100th birthday, the Schrödinger equation is getting a glow-up from quantum physicists
A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking what happens when the observer is part of that world
40 years after Challenger disaster, NASA faces safety fears on Artemis II
Many of the team behind NASA’s Artemis II mission were children 40 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disaster reshaped spaceflight
AI reveals 800 never-before-seen ‘cosmic anomalies’ in old Hubble images
Scientists analyzed more than 100 million image cutouts from a Hubble Space Telescope archive and found hundreds of previously undiscovered objects
NASA pushes ahead with ‘wet’ dress rehearsal for Artemis II moon mission
A crucial test of NASA’s upcoming crewed flight to the moon is set to take place as soon as Saturday, the agency said
JWST unveils most intricate map yet of cosmic dark matter
Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible
NASA gears up for a historic lunar flyby, AI gives stroke patients hope, and researchers discover the oldest known cave art
What’s on the road to the launch of NASA’s Artemis II, how scientists are using artificial intelligence to help stroke patients speak, and what an Indonesian cave art discovery says about early human migration