Science
'Apollo 13' at 30: the space movie where scientist...
Ron Howard's classic celebrates the mission control geniuses who got the astronauts home.
NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scie...
With the aid of NASA's exoplanet-hunter TESS, citizen scientists have discovered a new gas giant tha...
NASA budget cuts threaten Europe's already trouble...
An illustration of Europe's planned Rosalind Franklin rover on the surface of Mars.
Altered gut microbiome linked to fertility issues ...
People with PCOS who struggle to conceive tend to have lower levels of a gut microbe that has been l...
'War of the Worlds' at 20: Steven Spielberg made t...
Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have n...
Blue Origin launches 6 tourists on suborbital trip...
Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its 13th crewed New...
New satellite constellation will scan the entire E...
Muon Space released the first images from its new wildfire detection satellite, FireSat.
How do hurricanes and tropical storms get their na...
The World Meteorological Organization maintains a list of 21 hurricane names for each year. In espec...
Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astro...
Parisian astronomer Camille Flammarion brought used science fiction to bring Mars to life
Is the US forfeiting its Red Planet leadership to ...
"Returning the scientifically selected samples that await us on Mars, as part of a balanced portfoli...
Did you ever hear the tragedy of 'Star Wars: Under...
George Lucas had big plans for a live-action TV series before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney in 2012 — ...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 167 — An Outpo...
On Episode 167 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by AJ Gemer of Lunar Outpo...
Is the bar higher for scientific claims of alien l...
The skepticism and debate around the question of "are we alone in the universe" makes the field of a...
The ups and downs of life in space | On the ISS th...
The Axiom Mission-4 (Ax-4) crew flying aboard SpaceX's Dragon "Grace" docked to the International Sp...
Japan targeting June 28 for launch of GOSAT-GW on ...
The 50th and final liftoff of Japan's H-2A rocket is set to launch the GOSAT-GW satellite on Saturda...
Satellites keep breaking up in space. Insurance wo...
Cheap, uninsured satellites are creating more space junk — and it's starting to rain down on our hea...
SpaceX sends Starlink satellites into space on 1st...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with 27 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Stat...
Look for the 'Other Dipper' this summer: How to fi...
Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen thro...
15 years before Helldivers 2, Lost Planet 2 taught...
One of the most overlooked sequels in Capcom's history, Lost Planet 2 walked so games like Helldiver...
See the crescent moon dance with Mars and the brig...
For some lucky viewers, the moon will pass directly in front of Mars.
X-ray boosting fabric could make mammograms less p...
A flexible fabric called X-Wear could replace some parts of medical scanners, which would make takin...
Nozzle explodes off rocket booster during engine t...
A solid rocket engine for NASA's Space Launch System rocket experienced an anomaly during a static f...
Mathematicians create a tetrahedron that always la...
With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests ...
The bold plan to save a vital ocean current with g...
Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Over...
Hello, neighbor! See the Andromeda galaxy like nev...
Andromeda never looked as good as it does in a new image from the Chandra X-ray observatory and a ra...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates nebula-like ring in...
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the Interna...
Bootid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight: Here's wh...
The meteor shower radiant can be found in the constellation Bootes.
Rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen fro...
The fireball was bright enough to be spotted by a lightning-tracking satellite from orbit.
Mexico threatens lawsuit against SpaceX over Stars...
The Mexican president said there is a "general review underway of the international laws that are be...
How a fake astronaut fooled the world, broke women...
For years, Robert Hunt convinced everyone he could that he was a NASA astronaut. The truth was anyth...
Our verdict on The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bra...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club's take on our latest read, a time-...
Read an extract from Adam Roberts’s far future-set...
In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Boo...
Why Adam Roberts set out to write a sci-fi utopia,...
The author of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on why, in a world ...
Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over ...
There have been hundreds of reports of sightings of a “fireball” in the skies over the southern US –...
More than 1,800 National Science Foundation worker...
National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on...
Upcoming DC movies: Superman, Supergirl, Clayface,...
Superman is spearheading DC's big reboot in the realm of movies and TV, but what's coming next? And ...
Astronomers discover baby planets taking their 1st...
Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78...
Rocket Lab launches 'Get the Hawk Outta Here' miss...
Rocket Lab launched an Electron rocket from New Zealand on June 26. The rocket carried a trio of rad...
Ash trees are rapidly evolving some resistance to ...
DNA sequencing shows young trees are more likely to have gene variants that confer partial resistanc...
Deep sleep seems to lead to more eureka moments
After a nap, people who entered the second stage of sleep were more likely to spot a solution to a p...
These rocks are probably the last remains of Earth...
Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks –...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3: Release da...
Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew are back and on the hunt for The Gorn. Here’s everything we kno...
Human remains lost after memorial spaceflight caps...
The remains of 166 people part of a Celestis Memorial Spaceflight are presumed lost after The Explor...
See a vivid green fireball light up the northeaste...
The fireball was visible from several states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
Northern lights may be visible in these 10 US Stat...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Washington as a giant hole in the sun's atmosphere fuels geoma...
A star exploded in the Lupus constellation. Here's...
V462 Lupi will soon vanish from the night sky, but before it does, the dark skies around the new moo...
Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for clima...
With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape ro...
Alien life could survive deadly stellar radiation,...
A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow...
Extreme winter weather isn’t down to a wavier jet ...
The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn't out of the ordinary, researchers have fou...
Rubin Observatory takes its 1st look at the night ...
The telescope, working with the world's largest digital camera, scans the night sky in search of dar...
