Space & Physics

The company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than could be done with classical computers—but others disagree

Top advisers in NASA’s Office of the Chief Scientist are among the first to go amid a government-wide downsizing effort

For the second time in two years, a commercial lunar lander built and operated by Intuitive Machines has fallen over on the moon

Flickering loops in the sun’s corona may appear before dangerous solar activity

The March 13–14 lunar eclipse will be an all-night affair you won’t want to miss

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days

A mysterious neuro-ocular syndrome remains an unknown risk for long-term spaceflight

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang

Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented look at the earliest days of the universe and much more