Space & Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits

Astronaut-turned-author Chris Hadfield discusses his new thriller Final Orbit, which weaves real cold war history, space race geopolitics and firsthand experience into a gripping work of fiction.

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work showing how bizarre microscopic quantum effects can infiltrate our large-scale, everyday world

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows signs of life-supporting chemistry, fungi may have shaped Earth before plants, and repeat COVID infections raise long-term health risks for kids.

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit

A fresh analysis of old data has found rich organic chemistry within the hidden ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earth-like planets are common—if it can get off the ground

Many asteroids are related, but their family trees can be hard to trace

Lunar minerals can rust when bombarded with high-energy oxygen particles, experiments show

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway