The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019, in Titusville, Florida. Joe Raedle Getty Images/TNS The University of Texas at Arlington is ...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Observatory telescope — the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope until 2016, when China completed a larger one — space physicist Qihou Zhou is ...

Space weather has matured from a niche concern to a central pillar of space exploration, national security, and scientific inquiry. In addition to its natural 11-year cycle of rising and falling ...

The Committee on Solar and Space Physics (CSSP) provides an independent, authoritative forum for identifying and discussing issues in solar and space physics with the research community, the federal ...

Quantum physics is quietly rewriting the rulebook for how far and how fast humanity might travel beyond Earth. A cluster of recent breakthroughs points to a future in which exotic states of matter, ...

UPDATE: IMAP successfully launched around 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a scientific instrument from Colorado is scheduled to launch into space from NASA’s Kennedy Space ...

The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of ...

University of Birmingham experts have created open-source computer software that helps scientists understand how fast-moving ...

This story has been updated to reflect a new scheduled launch time, Weds., Sept. 24. On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket will break the bonds of gravity while carrying the Interstellar Mapping ...

How do you portray momentum in space accurately? Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes a look at the origins of our ...