The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.

Nshan Kazaryan, engenheiro da Nasa responsável pela comunicação com as sondas espaciais Voyager 1 e Voyager 2, é mais jovem do que as próprias naves com as quais conversa. Leia mais (08/29/2026 - 12h00)

Amateur and professional astronomers pointed their telescopes at the impact site. Most did not detect anything.

Uma parte de um foguete Falcon 9, da SpaceX, atingiu a superfície da Lua na madrugada desta quarta-feira (5) a uma velocidade de 8.600 quilômetros por hora Leia mais (08/05/2026 - 15h31)

The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which sent two private landers to the moon last year, will collide with the moon early Wednesday morning.

A humanidade está mais uma vez espalhando lixo no nosso vizinho celeste mais próximo. Nesta quarta-feira (5), parte de um foguete Falcon 9, da SpaceX, cairá na Lua. Leia mais (08/04/2026 - 13h30)

A espaçonave Link, lançada para salvar um telescópio espacial da Nasa, agora também precisa ser salva. Leia mais (07/31/2026 - 11h00)

A spacecraft meant to push NASA’s Swift Observatory to a higher orbit malfunctioned and started tumbling several days ago. Engineers think it can still succeed.

It was the 13th test overall of Starship. The success is a boon to NASA’s moon plans and SpaceX’s hopes to deploy a million data centers in orbit.

Dr. Tsimerman won one of four Fields Medals, an award for top mathematicians under 40, for his work on the André-Oort conjecture, but is now changing his focus to artificial intelligence.

The young mathematician won a prestigious Fields Medal for her work on the so-called Kakeya conjecture.

The awards are bestowed only once every four years to mathematicians under the age of 40.

The mathematics professor has won a prestigious Fields Medal for his work at the intersection of geometry, topology and physics.

Dr. Deng, a mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, received a Fields Medal for his work on an equation describing fluid mechanics.

The 33 engines of the rocket’s booster stage had begun to ignite during Thursday’s launch attempt, but were then shut down. SpaceX will try again on another day.

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

Um telescópio espacial único da Nasa está prestes a cair do céu. Leia mais (06/30/2026 - 19h44)

Quando a Nasa anunciou os astronautas que voarão na Artemis 3, a próxima missão de seu programa de retorno à Lua, chamou a atenção de muitos o fato de a tripulação ser formada por quatro homens e nenhuma mulher. Leia mais (06/13/2026 - 13h00)

NASA has chosen four astronauts for the Artemis III mission, but there has been a major setback: the destruction of a Blue Origin rocket and its only launchpad. Our science reporter Katrina Miller describes what this event might mean for the U.S. goal of landing on the moon by 2028.