Space & Physics

Satellite streaks are ruining astronomical images. Can scientists and space companies find solutions before it’s too late?

NASA faces historic budget cuts that could shutter missions and stall vital research, prompting a bipartisan outcry from all of the agency’s living former science chiefs.

Spurred by competition from China and Russia, the Trump administration is pushing for nuclear power on the moon by 2030

JWST observations of light sources before the first galaxies should have formed are raising new questions about our galactic origins

NASA needs clear support from the White House if we want to win the new space race

Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today

Scientists are uncovering how spinning black holes launch jets, warp spacetime and shape the cosmos

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering

As Earth spins through space, its rate of rotation changes. Here’s why

The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capricornids are due to peak at the same time and may add up to something magical

The first antimatter qubit will help search for differences between matter and antimatter

Set your alarm on Wednesday to see some of the summer’s stunning meteor showers.