Detection system uses gravitational waves to map merging black holes phys.org/news/2026-02...

VIP-2 experiment narrows the search for exotic physics beyond the Pauli exclusion principle phys.org/news/2026-02...

Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart phys.org/news/2026-02...

Between being and emptiness In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature aeon.co/essays/the-j...

The most important quantum advance of the 21st century A century ago, quantum physics overthrew our view of a deterministic Universe. A profound 21st century theorem closes the door even further. startswithabang.substack.com/p/the-most-i...

The latest images of insterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS It started out as a small dot moving across a sea of stars in a black and white image, and now has evolved into a large, bright object with a glowing tail www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/comet-3...

'Jetty McJetface': Star-shredding black hole may keep ramping up its radio jet until 2027 peak phys.org/news/2026-02...

The Rohonc Codex: Hungary’s Mysterious Manuscript That No One Can Read www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...

The search for the Universe's first stars just got a lot stranger They shaped the Universe, yet the first stars ever born continue to evade the searches of astronomers www.sciencefocus.com/space/search...

One-of-a-kind 'plasma tunnel' recreates extreme conditions spacecraft face upon reentry phys.org/news/2026-02...

Neptunium study yields plutonium insights for space exploration techxplore.com/news/2026-02...

Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything phys.org/news/2026-02...

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: “This Machine Kills Fascists” and “This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender” www.openculture.com/2026/02/the-...

Let There Be Dark To unleash your imagination, step out of the light nautil.us/let-there-be...

How Modern and Antique Technologies Reveal a Dynamic Cosmos Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology. www.quantamagazine.org/how-modern-a...

What’s the point of a space station around the Moon? theconversation.com/whats-the-po...

Why planet parades and planet alignments happen www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/why-pla...

NASA Conducts Artemis II Fuel Test, Eyes March for Launch Opportunity www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Long-period Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered with TESS phys.org/news/2026-02...

Infrared running of gravity offers a field-theoretic route to dark matter phenomena phys.org/news/2026-02...

A student made cosmic dust in her lab—what she found could help us understand how life started on Earth phys.org/news/2026-02...

See the North Star close-up. Observations of Polaris reveal newly-seen detail, including a mottled surface www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/polaris...

Hear Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Radio Broadcast from 1938: The Original Tale of Mysterious Objects Flying Over New Jersey

NASA Researchers Probe Tangled Magnetospheres of Merging Neutron Stars science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

New map of the Milky Way's magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution phys.org/news/2026-01...

Gravitational wave signal tests Einstein's theory of general relativity phys.org/news/2026-01...

How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil phys.org/news/2026-01...

I'll be taking early morning walks to see this weekend's full Moon. Here's why you should too A morning full Moon is a beautiful thing www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/morning...

Massive runaway stars in the Milky Way: Observational study explores origins and ejection process phys.org/news/2026-01...

Atomic spins set quantum fluid in motion: Experimental realization of the Einstein–de Haas effect phys.org/news/2026-01...

A new method to search for ultralight dark matter with advanced optical cavities phys.org/news/2026-01...

Our Universe has light not by chance but by necessity aeon.co/videos/our-u...

Can We Protect Science? It was a burning question at the World Economic Forum last week nautil.us/can-we-prote...

Ann Druyan on How NASA’s Golden Records Got Made A comic about humanity’s love letter to interstellar space nautil.us/ann-druyan-o...

Bruce Springsteen Revives the Protest Song, Condemns ICE Violence in “Streets of Minneapolis” www.openculture.com/2026/01/bruc...

Networks Hold the Key to a Decades-Old Problem About Waves Mathematicians are still trying to understand fundamental properties of the Fourier transform, one of their most ubiquitous and powerful tools. A new result marks an exciting advance toward that goal. www.quantamagazine.org/networks-hol...

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not theconversation.com/is-time-a-fu...

Webb has done it again. New-found galaxy at the dawn of time is challenging what we know about the Universe Webb sees galaxy as it existed just after the Big Bang www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/mom-z14

Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole phys.org/news/2026-01...

NASA's Juno measures thickness of Europa's ice shell phys.org/news/2026-01...

Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies phys.org/news/2026-01...

JWST finds nine category-defying objects. Have astronomers found their “platypus?” Just like animals, galaxies often have bizarre, unusual, or even unique properties. But finding many, all at once, really does raise alarms. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

A lesson in coexistence The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) aeon.co/essays/lesso...

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? www.quantamagazine.org/is-particle-...

Yes, one image from space can change humanity’s perspective Our view of the world, the Universe, and ourselves can change with just one glimpse of what’s out there. It’s happened many times before. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Webb's biggest dark matter map shows the Universe's 'invisible scaffolding' in stunning detail Map builds on previous studies to produce a new view of dark matter's cosmic influence www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/james-w...

High-resolution map shows dark matter's gravity pulled normal matter into galaxies phys.org/news/2026-01...

Playing in flatland Physicists believe a third class of particles – anyons – could exist, but only in 2D. What kind of existence is that? aeon.co/essays/anyon...

Rare Glimpses of Diverse Marine Life Take the Stage in This Year’s Ocean Art Photography Contest www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/ocea...

Proposed new mission will create artificial solar eclipses in space theconversation.com/proposed-new...