Space & Physics

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave and evolve

At an event at NASA Headquarters, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter

Advances in quantum technology might allow astronomers to circumvent age-old issues that limit the size of optical observatories

Our universe appears flat—but this observation still leaves plenty of options for its true shape. In fact, our cosmos could resemble a donut

Friday’s test flight marks a major milestone for SpaceX as the company gears up to go public and to participate in NASA’s Artemis III mission in 2027

An astrophotographer teamed up with Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman to create these stunning new images of the lunar surface

Scientists are working to solve a mystery of Earth’s molten outer core, which lies more than 2,000 kilometers beneath our feet