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Extraterrestrial Life

Extraterrestrial Life

JWST’s Exoplanet Images Are Just the Beginning of Astrobiology’s Future

Briley Lewis | Opinion

Astronomy

Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet?

Allison Gasparini

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Physicists Create Long-Sought Topological Quantum States

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Mirror-Image Supernova Yields Surprising Estimate of Cosmic Growth

A new way to gauge the universe’s expansion rate has delivered a confusing result that may conflict with previous related measurements

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Extraterrestrial Life

Extraterrestrial Life

JWST’s Exoplanet Images Are Just the Beginning of Astrobiology’s Future

Briley Lewis | Opinion

Astronomy

Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet?

Allison Gasparini

Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Physicists Create Long-Sought Topological Quantum States

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Planetary Science

Planetary Science

NASA’s Interplanetary Plans May Be Lurching toward Disaster

Shannon Hall

Food

Here’s the Weird Physics That Makes Peanut Butter a Liquid

Ted Heindel and The Conversation US

Astronomy

JWST Sees Alien Asteroid Belt around Nearby Star

Robert Lea and SPACE.com

Space Exploration

Space Exploration

SpaceX Faces Reckoning after Starship’s Messy First Flight

Meghan Bartels

Astronomy

JWST Spots Planetary Building Blocks in a Surprising Galaxy

Myriam Vidal Valero and Nature

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Space Exploration

SpaceX Faces Reckoning after Starship’s Messy First Flight

SpaceX’s Starship launch site in southern Texas is now the subject of a lawsuit after the vehicle’s first flight caused concerning damage

Planetary Science

NASA’s Interplanetary Plans May Be Lurching toward Disaster

Delays and budgetary overruns are causing many to worry that NASA’s ambitious planetary science program is at a breaking point

Quantum Physics

Physicists Create Long-Sought Topological Quantum States

Exotic particles called nonabelions could fix quantum computers’ error problem

Davide Castelvecchi and Nature magazine

Here’s the Weird Physics That Makes Peanut Butter a Liquid

Yes, peanut butter is a liquid (and a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid)

Ted Heindel and The Conversation US

Did JWST Just Find Water on a Rocky Exoplanet?

Hints of water vapor on a world called GJ 486 b could just as well come from the planet’s host star

Allison Gasparini

Is Time Travel Possible?

The laws of physics allow time travel. So why haven’t people become chronological hoppers?

Special Report

Inside the New Missions to Jupiter's Moons

Inside the New Missions to Jupiter's Moons

Spacecraft will explore hidden oceans and the possibility of life on the moons of Jupiter

Videos

Vera Rubin Lives On in Lives of the Women She Helped in Astronomy

The “mother of dark matter” was a force of nature—and a forceful advocate for other women who wanted to dedicate their career to the cosmos.

March 31, 2023

Particle Physics

Particle Physics

This Particle Accelerator Makes a Substance That Has Not Existed in 13 Billion Years

February 22, 2023

Astrophysics

All the Gold in the Universe Was (Likely) Created This Way

January 5, 2023

Black Holes

What Is the Black Hole Information Paradox? A Primer

August 16, 2022

Astronomy

See the Oldest View of Our Known Universe, Just Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

July 11, 2022

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A Mission to Jupiter's Strange Moons Is Finally on Its Way

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A Mission to Jupiter's Strange Moons Is Finally on Its Way

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