Space & Physics

The March 13–14 lunar eclipse will be an all-night affair you won’t want to miss

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power supplies wane, scientists are saying goodbye to one instrument on each spacecraft

Despite some connection delays postlanding, the lunar lander Athena is officially set to study what lies beneath the moon’s surface over the next 10 days

A mysterious neuro-ocular syndrome remains an unknown risk for long-term spaceflight

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang

Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

After its successful lunar touchdown, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission could soon be joined on the moon by two more commercial spacecraft

NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented look at the earliest days of the universe and much more

Whether aliens could detect our modern civilization depends on what signs they’re looking for—and, crucially, their distance from us

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If we want to live off Earth, we may need to take more of our bacterial friends with us

A nearly century-old offshoot of Einstein’s general theory of relativity may hold promise for solving the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy and more

Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander is planned to touch down near the moon's south pole on or around March 6