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Breaking the Law

Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible

Steve Nadis

Look Up

How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3

Jorge Garay

High Wire

Billionaire Finally Launches on First Private Space-Walk Mission

Jonathan O’Callaghan

Warp Speed

Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves

Katy Clough, Sebastian Khan, and Tim Dietrich

Secrets of the Universe

The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger

Liz Kruesi

homeward bound

Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Space

Moon GPS Is Coming

Becky Ferreira

Space Oddity

Strange Noises Are Coming from Inside Boeing’s Starliner Spacecraft

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

Deep Freeze

Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon

Ayurella Horn-Muller and Syris Valentine

Paralympics 2024

John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

Emilio Cozzi

Return to Sender

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon Next Year

Becky Ferreira

End of the Universe

The Vacuum of Space Will Decay Sooner Than Expected

Matt von Hippel

left in space

NASA Nears Decision Time on Boeing Starliner’s Fate

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Three’s a Crowd

How to See the Conjunction Between Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon This August

Jorge Garay

Stress Test

This Gargantuan Lab Simulates Blasting Satellites Into Space

Jonathan O’Callaghan

left in space

NASA Still Hasn't Decided How to Get the Boeing Starliner Astronauts Home

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

look up!

See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower

Gretchen Rundorff

left in space

NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home

Eric Berger, Ars Technica

New Order

The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems

Philip Ball

Space Invaders

To Find Alien Life, We Might Have to Kill It

Becky Ferreira