Space & Physics

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

Models giving dark matter more complex behavior could help solve multiple cosmic mysteries

NASA announced that this uncrewed lander, named Endurance, completed vacuum testing on Earth—a key step toward a planned launch later this year

Want to go to the moon? Travel vicariously through the more than 12,000 photos NASA just posted from the Artemis II mission

Massive investments in AI may bring synergy and revenue to SpaceX, or could create problems for it and NASA, especially if the AI bubble pops

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun

While there is no immediate danger, this crash highlights that space junk is increasingly expanding out of lower-Earth orbit

This next-generation plane is made to go faster than sound without producing a full sonic boom

The Kardashev scale is an interesting but flawed gauge of a civilization’s growth

Researchers are perplexed by a galaxy that seems too large and too dusty for its place in cosmic history, less than a half-billion years after the big bang

A recent experiment revealed that individual dark points on a light wave can move faster than the wave itself