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Lunar exploration is undergoing a renaissance. Dozens of missions, organized by multiple space agencies—and increasingly by commercial companies—are set to visit the moon by...

Physics World is delighted to announce its top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2023, which ranges from research in astronomy...

Using a cutting-edge spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have found evidence...

The highest resolution to date in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) camera has been claimed by researchers in the US....

IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...

IntroductionCynthia Chiang always wanted to work with her hands. Although it may sound counterintuitive, it’s what led her to the fairly abstract field of...

The most distant galactic magnetic field ever observed has been reported by an international team...

IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to...

The values of the fundamental physical constants – seemingly fine-tuned for the emergence of nuclear matter and ultimately life – might...

IntroductionYears before she was even sure the James Webb Space Telescope would successfully launch, Christina Eilers started planning a conference for astronomers specializing in...