Space & Physics

This year’s winners include hundreds of physicists across more than 30 institutions

The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking from April 21 to April 22. Here’s how to spot this annual celestial light show

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after this U.S. funding giant slashed its Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards in half

All the sun’s planets are oddballs. But some are more so than others

Observations by the Mars Express orbiter reveal rapid changes on the Red Planet’s surface from windblown volcanic ash

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen reflected on the highs and lows of their moon mission—the first of its kind in more than 50 years

A new map of the cosmos, including more than 47 million galaxies and other cosmic objects, represents one of the most extensive surveys of our universe ever conducted

A first-of-its-kind observation shows how jets from voracious black holes can shape the growth of galaxies

Artemis II’s crew went farther from humanity than anyone has been before. Here’s how one scientist determined whom, specifically, they were farthest from

If the U.S. is ever to set up a permanent outpost on the moon, it will need nuclear power. The White House just released a road map to get it as soon as 2028

In 2027’s Artemis III mission, the space agency aims to test two challengers, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for a lunar landing mission

With the rise of private orbital habitats, vacations in space are becoming a real possibility for the ultrawealthy