DENNIS OVERBYE
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Where is Physics Headed (and How Soon Do We Get There)?
Two leading scientists discuss the future of their field.
The Webb Telescope Is Just Getting Started
The first scientific results are coming in, and the $10 billion instrument is working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.
Physicists Create ‘the Smallest, Crummiest Wormhole You Can Imagine’
Scientists used a quantum computer to explore the ultimate escape route from a black hole.
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard
Just 1,600 light-years away, the black hole is the closest known to Earth. The good news: It’s dormant, at least for now.
Webb Telescope Captures New View of ‘Pillars of Creation’
The NASA space observatory’s infrared eye finds out what’s going on within the cloudy cosmic nursery.
Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe
Take gravity, add quantum mechanics, stir. What do you get? Just maybe, a holographic cosmos.
Nobel Prize in Physics to Be Awarded Today
The second Nobel announced this year will be presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Webb Telescope’s New Jupiter Images and an Expanded Universe
As new images of Jupiter and a galactic survey spring forth from NASA’s new observatory, our cosmic affairs correspondent confesses he didn’t anticipate their power.
Webb Telescope Pictures: NASA Builds Toward Its First Release
NASA picked five new images of scenes from around the universe that it hopes will knock the public’s socks off. Get ready for astronomical records...
A Chinese Telescope Did Not Find an Alien Signal. The Search Continues.
China’s astronomers have been initiated into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence with the kind of false alarm that others in the field have experienced for...
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