Space

Sign up for our newsletter

We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.

  1. Space

    Antennas reveal Antennae

    A giant radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert produces its first images.

    By
  2. Space

    Longer cosmic ruler based on black holes

    A new method promises to improve the precision of extreme astronomical distance measurements.

    By
  3. Space

    Messenger from Mercury

    NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.

    By
  4. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Alien extreme weather, nature vs. nurture in stars and more in this week’s news.

    By
  5. Physics

    Neutrinos seen to fly faster than light

    Though few physicists expect it to withstand scrutiny, confirmation of the observation would shake physics to its core.

    By
  6. Planetary Science

    Fertile Frontiers

    Alien-life hunters focus on moons in outer solar system

    By
  7. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    The source of the Milky Way’s spirals, a new way to spot gravitational waves and more in this week’s news.

    By
  8. Space

    On Kepler-16b, shadows come in pairs

    Astronomers discover a planet that orbits a pair of stars.

    By
  9. Space

    Planet search finds lots of little guys

    The latest collection of extrasolar bodies to be revealed is rich in worlds not much bigger than Earth.

    By
  10. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Black holes could make the sun jiggle, nanodiamonds' origin and more in this week's news.

    By
  11. Space

    Hints of dark matter reported, again

    European experiment sees some evidence for a heretofore unseen component of the universe.

    By
  12. Space

    Super-Earths may come in two flavors

    As more exoplanets are discovered, evidence emerges that worlds can be either fluffy or dense.

    By