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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...
Cosmic images from the world's largest digital cam...
The amount of data generated by the Rubin Observatory is going to blow all previous cosmic datasets ...
NASA's been pulling out of major astronomy meeting...
NASA and the National Science Foundation cancelled their major events at a major astronomy conferenc...
What sleep scientists recommend doing to fall asle...
Helping yourself get to sleep isn’t just about avoiding screens before bedtime. From cognitive shuff...
From the Cape to the constellation: SpaceX launche...
SpaceX launched a batch of 27 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space...
Watch live: Axiom-4 astronauts aboard SpaceX Crew ...
After more than 24 hours on orbit, the the private astronaut crew of Axiom-4 will catch up to the In...
Independent estimate of Gaza deaths is higher than...
A study based on household surveys suggests that from October 2023 to January 2025, around 75,000 pe...
Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as ...
A boomerang discovered in a Polish cave was originally dated as 18,000 years old, but it may have be...
Gastric bypass surgery may cut the risk of bowel c...
Weight-loss surgery seems to lower the risk of colorectal cancer by changing where bile acids enter ...
How might society react to babies with two genetic...
Mice created using genetic material from two sperm cells have gone on to have offspring off their ow...
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'Space chocolate,' mango nectar and pierogis: Here...
The four astronauts of the private Ax-4 mission to the ISS represent four different countries, so th...
Off-Earth footprint: Florida company will design s...
Humanity will soon take another step toward establishing an off-Earth economy, if all goes according...
Cancer cells steal mitochondria from nerve cells t...
Cancer cells can acquire energy-generating structures called mitochondria from nearby nerve cells, w...
The final trailer for 'Fantastic Four: First Steps...
With exactly a month to go until the release of Fantastic Four: First Steps, the final trailer revea...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, TWA 7b which is also the lightest...
