Space & Physics

The VIPER lunar rover promised a revolution in our understanding of the moon’s precious deposits of ice. Then NASA cancelled the mission

Claims of alien starships visiting Earth always fall short, but people still fall for them

Windows devices go down, Twisters brings tornadoes to the big screen and COVID’s summer surge in this week’s news roundup.

Large language models may enable real-time communication with extraterrestrial civilizations despite the vast distances between stars. We need to start thinking about what to tell them about us

SpaceX will supercharge its Dragon capsule to send the International Space Station to a watery retirement

Material from the moon’s far side collected by China’s Chang’e 6 spacecraft could solve a long-standing lunar mystery

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Aviation Administration to determine whether the company can resume launches of its recently grounded workhorse rocket

We can and should look harder for evidence of alien visitors to our solar system

How falling cats, slithering snakes, burrowing prairie dogs and more exploit the laws of physics

Radiolab host Latif Nasser found and named a mysterious quasi-moon of Venus. Now you can help name one of Earth’s quasi-moons.

ESA’s Ramses spacecraft will scout out Apophis before and after the asteroid’s super-close flyby of Earth in 2029

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri