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Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley share the 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy

Photos of Ken’ichi Nomoto and Stanford Woosley

Soviet institutes, Martian neighbours, Whovian science, stellar patterns and dystopian predictions: micro reviews of recent books

Condensed natter: Physics World editors give their compressed verdicts on top new books

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Soot from rocket launches is polluting Earth’s upper atmosphere

Problem set to worsen as launch numbers increase, say UCL researchers

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Jessica Dempsey takes up post as head of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory

Dark energy survey unveils the largest 3D map of the universe

NASA launches crewed Artemis II mission to the Moon

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Asymmetric weather pattern reveals exoplanet’s true atmosphere

Artistic representation of the exoplanet WASP-94A b

Novel gravitational-wave model sheds light on dark matter

Illustration of a binary black hole system evolving in dark matter

Building a better laser on the Moon

Earth’s magnetic field could be ‘ringing’ with dark matter

Existing magnetometer measurements constrain dark-matter properties

Gravitational waves could leave traces in light from cold atoms

New theoretical work suggests that the pattern of light emitted by atoms could be used to detect gravitational waves at frequencies outside the range of traditional detectors

Gap in neutrino energy spectrum raises questions about cosmic environments

New analyses by the IceCube observatory could help scientists understand where neutrinos form and what is producing them

Evidence for a ‘forbidden range’ of black hole masses emerges in gravitational wave observations

Stars in this range may form a long-predicted type of supernova instead

Newton’s law describes gravity on cosmological scales, galaxy clusters reveal

Observations appear to rule out MOND, but not everyone agrees

Gravitational effects could shed more light on the Hubble tension

Two new ways to measure the Hubble constant

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‘Galactic archaeologists’ share the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics

Laureate Amina Helmi and Per Barth Lilje of the prize committee are our guests

Photos of Amina Helmi and Per Barth Lilje

Back to the Moon: inside the Artemis II mission

Exploring the first crewed Artemis mission, the future of lunar exploration and how spaceflight could help inspire greener technologies on Earth

Artemis crew taking part in an integrated ground systems test at Kennedy Space Center in Florida

Radio gaga: surfing the long wavelengths of the universe

Benjamin Giblin reviews Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth by Emma Chapman

Several large telescopes on a snowy mountain plateau with a person walking past in the foreground

Thumbs up to Artemis II: a jigsaw puzzle

Can you reconstruct the space image we’ve pulled apart?

Four astronauts floating in a space capsule holding thumbs up and smiling

One giant leap: Artemis II returns humanity to the Moon

Artemis II has returned humanity to the Moon, gripping the whole world. Keith Cooper follows the mission’s journey and looks at what comes next for humans in space

Orion module in foreground with the Moon behind and then in the far distance a crescent of Earth

Perseverance finds evidence for an ancient river delta on Mars

New analyses of the Jezero impact crater reveal signs of flowing water

Image data of the potential Martian delta

Exploring the astrophysics behind Project Hail Mary

Author Andy Weir and astrophysicist Becky Smethurst unpack the physics in the new Hollywood space epic

Could lightning occur on Mars?

MAVEN probe captures signature of a "whistler"

A rubbish challenge: how do we dump space junk?

Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk about the danger of space debris and what we need to do about it

An external pallet packed with old nickel-hydrogen batteries is pictured shortly after mission controllers in Houston commanded the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release it into space

Stripes of Enceladus: a jigsaw puzzle

Can you reconstruct the astrophysics image we’ve pulled apart?

Lunar magnetic field mystery may finally have an explanation

Physicists weren’t sure why Moon rocks brought back during the Apollo missions are more strongly magnetized than models predict

Three people standing in front of a green and grey cutaway model of the Earth's layers. Yellow lines representing magnetic fields spring out from the model Earth's poles.

Long-distance quantum sensor network advances the search for dark matter

Physicists in China have set the tightest constraint yet on a parameter known as axion-nucleon coupling

A net made from faintly glowing filaments and bright nodes appears poised to scoop up a dark-purple region of space

Quantum memories could help make long-baseline optical astronomy a reality

Single-photon interferometry achieved over 1.5 km

Ancient reversal of Earth’s magnetic field took an extraordinarily long time

Field-flipping event 40 million years ago in the Eocene epoch lasted 70,000 years

A researcher in a laboratory looking through samples

2D materials help spacecraft electronics resist radiation damage

Transistors based on atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides appear particularly robust

Composite image showing a spacecraft launch, a diagram of circuits, and an excerpt from the sheet music of the "Anthem of Fudan University"

India announces three new telescopes in the Himalayan desert

The telescopes in Ladakh would significantly improve global coverage of transient and variable phenomena

Artist's impression of the NLST observatory

Black hole is born with an infrared whimper

Observation sheds new light on how some massive stars fade away

Illustration of a newly formed black hole

Asteroid deflection: why we need to get it right the first time

Aerospace engineer Rahil Makadia on the danger of asteroid “keyholes”

Photo of Rahil Makadia at an alpine lake

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