Space & Physics

The director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory discusses changing the pace of scientific research

The congressional representative and physicist talks about the search for scientific truth and the role of immigrants in the U.S. scientific enterprise

The renowned physicist on the lack of public support for political interference in science

The Fermilab physicist on curiosity and doing what you love

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way

NASA’s X-59 research aircraft reached its target speed and altitude for the first time on Friday

SpaceX’s IPO—the largest in history—has out-of-this-world implications for AI, space commerce and extraterrestrial exploration

The new movie Disclosure Day is all about a big alien secret. But SETI researchers behind the updated postdetection protocol say they aren’t in the business of secrets

Meteor camera networks can reveal the hidden history of the solar system, and you can assist from your own backyard

Extremely curved spacetime can warp cause and effect, creating channels for backward communication

A linguist lays out what communicating with aliens could actually involve—and what that tells us about human language

This tiny robot might look like a high-tech hamster ball, but it could hasten lunar exploration