Space & Physics

Droughts in 48 of 50 U.S. states, evidence of microplastics mucking up wastewater recycling and the science of a baseball mud bath in this week’s news roundup.

The Martian new year arrives with the Red Planet’s vernal equinox. Explaining why requires a deep dive into celestial mechanics and Earth’s calendrical history

It is difficult to disentangle Russian and Chinese scientists from international science cooperation. That is a good thing

A galaxy cluster bends light from seven background galaxies around it, letting astronomers peer into space and time

Long before it orbited Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope starred in a famous Superman comic

Pesky leaks on the International Space Station aren’t the most serious issue facing U.S. human spaceflight

At dusk and dawn, the sky dances with three phases of in-between light

A strange supernova remnant first appeared as a “guest star” seen in 1181 by sky watchers in China and Japan

A science photo book probes the colors we can see—and even “forbidden” colors we can’t

This blazingly fast star is shooting through the Milky Way with a planet in tow

A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, but what about other large pieces of space debris?

If you’ve ever seen faces in clouds, these heavenly entities will leave you haunted