A new satellite’s ‘plasma brake’ uses Earth’s atmosphere to avoid becoming space junk By Andrew Paul / Oct 5, 2023
Discoverers of colorful quantum dot nanotech win 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry By Laura Baisas / Oct 4, 2023
A ‘ring of fire’ eclipse and Hunter’s Moon will bring lunar drama to October’s skies By Laura Baisas / Oct 1, 2023
JWST just scanned the skies of potentially habitable exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b By Laura Baisas / Sep 26, 2023
A massive detector in China will try to find a supernova before it happens By Briley Lewis / Sep 26, 2023
What SpaceX—and anyone else going to the moon—can learn from the prep for Starship’s next launch By Jon Kelvey / Sep 19, 2023
31 award-winning astronomy photos: From fiery horizons to whimsical auroras By PopSci Staff / Sep 16, 2023
A newly spotted black hole keeps munching on a star the size of our sun By Laura Baisas / Sep 7, 2023
Astronomers detect a distant galaxy’s magnetic field for the first time By Laura Baisas / Sep 7, 2023
September’s night sky will sparkle with the Harvest Moon and a newly discovered comet By Laura Baisas / Aug 31, 2023
How the world’s biggest particle accelerator is racing to cook up plasma from after the big bang By Rahul Rao / Aug 31, 2023
Some space junk just got smacked by more space junk, complicating cleanup By Andrew Paul / Aug 25, 2023
Michigan State students help unearth a 19th-century space observatory on campus By Laura Baisas / Aug 16, 2023
10 cosmically beautiful photos of the Perseid meteor shower from around the world By PopSci Staff / Aug 14, 2023
Boeing’s struggling Starliner craft won’t fly astronauts until at least 2024 By Jon Kelvey / Aug 10, 2023
Virgin Galactic’s second commercial flight sent three tourists to space’s edge By Andrew Paul / Aug 10, 2023
Want to catch the 2023 Perseid meteor shower? Here’s your best shot. By Mary Beth Griggs / Aug 9, 2023
Would a massive shade between Earth and the sun help slow climate change? By Jon Kelvey / Aug 9, 2023