Space & Physics

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.

Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy

Here’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s big game

Less than a decade since the first detection of gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime itself—proposed budget cuts threaten to silence this groundbreaking science

Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets

Physicists superheated gold to 14 times its melting point, disproving a long-standing prediction about the temperature limits of solids