Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the future of astronautics and space technologies. That visibility naturally invites a follow-on question: what comes next ...

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The dream of Star Trek-style instant travel has officially crossed the border from pure science fiction into a chilling philosophical reality. Scientists at the University of Rochester and ...

Every great science-fiction story has a moment when imagination gives way to something sturdier. Not a guess. Not a beautiful image. But a number recorded by a tool that doesn’t blink. 128026366 ...

A century ago, the idea of humans walking on the Moon or editing genes would have sounded like fantasy. In 2025, science pushed past disbelief again — not with distant promises, but with real-world ...

2025’s most surprising computational revelations included a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and an important milestone in ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward In 2025, researchers watched an interstellar comet, learned about human ...

Researchers have figured out how to create a gas that, when cooled to freezing temperatures, will not experience resistance or diffusion. The atoms in this gas do not abide by the usual ballistic or ...

It was a tough year for science in the U.S. Thousands of research grants, including more than 3,800 from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation alone, were frozen or ...