Space & Physics

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes combined

Solar Orbiter isn’t the first spacecraft to study the sun’s poles—but it’s the first to send back photographs

The most anticipated particle physics result of recent years is here—but the real news came one week before: the “muon g–2 anomaly” might have never existed

The Milky Way’s big crash with Andromeda might not be a sure thing. Plus, we discuss an overheated ocean, a giant planet circling a tiny star and worms that build living towers.

A vitriolic war of words between President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk could have profound repercussions for the nation’s civil and military space programs

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

A curious celestial phenomenon known as the analemma is a reflection of Earth’s orbit and tilted axis

Surveys show that how nuclear strike options are presented strongly influences the decision a president may make

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet

Even how matter exists in the first place is a mystery to physicists