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New research from two UCLA professors with support from the Simons Foundation’s Math + X program opens the door to revolutionary advances — with already proven results.

Now, thanks to a decade of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope, we have a chance to see Andromeda as never before. Early this year, NASA released a stunning mosaic that provides the sharpest and most detailed view of the great spiral galaxy.

Observations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen.

New data suggests that dark energy, the force driving cosmic acceleration, might be weakening with time. If so, expansion could eventually slow, stop, or even reverse.

The international space industry is on a growth trajectory, but new research shows a rapid increase in rocket launches would damage the ozone layer.

In 2014, mathematician Peter Lax discussed his incredible career and accomplishments as part of the Simons Foundation’s Science Lives series.

Peter Lax, an innovator in applied mathematics who left Hungary during World War II and worked on U.S. atomic bomb calculations as a college student while developing equations that would later influence fields such as medicine and weather forecasting, died May 16 at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.

The Perimeter Institute is like a concert hall where the deepest symphonies of nature are composed and performed.

This year will be a big one for quantum computing, at least according to the United Nations: 2025 is officially the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology,” a worldwide initiative to raise awareness of technological progress and encourage new advances.

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.