Groundbreaking advances in solar and space physics have provided key insights into the inner workings of the heliosphere, the vast protective bubble formed by the solar wind that extends from the Sun ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL — At 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 24, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on ...

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 ...

Researchers at Northumbria University have used the most powerful space telescope ever built to answer one of the longest-standing puzzles in planetary science—why does Saturn appear to spin at a ...

Spacetime isn’t supposed to be predictable, but scientists may have just found the rules ...