Space & Physics

Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them

NASA chief Jared Isaacman announced a $30-billion plan to speed up its lunar landings and establish a U.S. moon base by 2036

Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements

The U.S. space agency will aim to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars—a first—in a bid to show that nuclear propulsion can be used to send missions into deep space

The decades since scientists confirmed the first planet around another star have been rich in discovery, but it’s rare to see a new solar system as it forms

The science-fiction film Project Hail Mary sees Ryan Gosling go to space in a state of suspended animation. But does the science suggest that’s possible?

This science-fiction movie plays with quantum physics, space travel, astrobiology and mass-to-energy conversion

Just how big can a star become? The answer depends on when in cosmic history you’re asking the question

The author of the novel Project Hail Mary breaks down aliens, anxiety and the process of bringing his story to the screen

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years

Project Hail Mary directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord talk about astrobiology, optimistic science fiction, heist films and handsome scientists

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby galaxy may be the culprit