The Eclipse in its full glory

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

The mission commander’s email inbox failed during the journey to the moon. Have they tried turning the computer off and back on again?

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before.

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather.

That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years.

Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

At the Polymarket pop-up in DC, attendees were supposed to be able to bet on geopolitical crises in real time with their friends. That didn’t happen.

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home.