Space & Physics

The space agency has put out a call for its Moon & Mars Exploration Analog, which recreates the challenges of a long-duration space mission

This new group, which is led by Harvard professor Avi Loeb, aims to advise the Trump administration and the U.S. intelligence community, as well as to publish its findings in peer-reviewed journals

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has started a 10-year survey of the changing night sky

Astronomers have for the first time observed an atmosphere around a giant planet orbiting a white dwarf

After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the Large Hadron Collider. But transforming this megaproject from vision to reality is far from guaranteed

Three companies will receive a total of $600 million to executive four moon landings, laying the groundwork for a planned crewed outpost on the surface

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be possible with NASA’s upcoming Roman telescope

Inside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatory

A field guide to the space rocks you might see streaking across the night sky

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what can we do about it?

The discovery of a completely new type of gravitational wave could reveal what happens near a black hole’s event horizon

Sometimes we mistake one kind of object with another to disastrous effect