Space & Physics

The rising moon looks huge on the horizon, but it’s all in your head

SpaceX’s fifth Starship flight test concluded with mechanical arms snatching the descending rocket booster out of the air

Estimates of how fast the universe is expanding disagree. Could a new form of dark energy resolve the problem?

We have been adding “leap seconds” to time kept by our atomic clocks, but soon we may have to subtract one. Are the tiny adjustments worth the bother?

In The Dispossessed, a physicist is caught between societies

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping other women succeed in science

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—a moon that might host life today

While many researchers celebrated this year’s chemistry and physics prizes, others were disappointed by the focus on computational methods

The famous exploding star T Coronae Borealis is due to detonate any day now, but it’s running a little late

Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for development of techniques that laid the foundation for revolutionary advances in artificial intelligence

Claims of worlds orbiting Barnard’s star have been made before. But an advanced instrument could provide the breakthrough that finally confirms the star hosts a planetary system