Space & Physics

The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight

The search for extraterrestrial life has periodically been turned upside down

The universe has a habit of disproving “unassailable” facts

Beneath the surfaces of distant planets, microbes might subsist on harsh radiation rather than starlight, a new study suggests

Neptune’s discovery was a race that ended not long after this magazine came to be

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered dozens of NASA missions over the past 50 years

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ever before

The Perseids are the best annual meteor shower, but this year’s show will be dimmed by a bright gibbous moon

From planets roaming space to major shifts in health funding, catch up with this week’s news roundup.

A survey of more than 1,000 physicists finds deep disagreements in what quantum theories mean in the real world

Bizarre phenomena called light echoes create strange, shifting shapes seen in some telescopic images and help astronomers chart the heavens above

In some of its most ambitious work yet, the James Webb Space Telescope looked to spot a planet in a potentially habitable orbit around Alpha Centauri A, the nearest sunlike star to our solar system