Space & Physics

Long ago, the cosmos might have been a black hole factory—and these primordial objects are even weirder than you think

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science

New images captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show Saturn in both visible and infrared light

Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges

A major defense against everything space throws at us, Earth’s magnetic field may even protect the moon from damaging galactic cosmic rays

Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them

NASA chief Jared Isaacman announced a $30-billion plan to speed up its lunar landings and establish a U.S. moon base by 2036

Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see a new solar system as it forms

The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the science suggest that’s possible?

This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion