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Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, ...
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzli...
SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th ...
SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday...
Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the ...
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formati...
Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of...
What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning...
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imag...
Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Ci...
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club...
Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your b...
When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger...
Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnin...
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, early tsunami warni...
Einstein was wrong (slightly) about quantum physic...
A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as b...
Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to tr...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthrit...
Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex ...
Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it ...
Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown i...
The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories could lead to better wa...
E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 change...
The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for...
SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from Califo...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July...
US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate sci...
The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t endanger people to reve...
Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Gree...
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturin...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tou...
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, whic...
SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to...
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff to...
Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics...
Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant ...
Common artificial sweetener may interfere with can...
People who consume some artificial sweeteners are less likely to respond to certain cancer therapies...
Venus reaches its highest point in the eastern pre...
Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.
Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details t...
The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait...
Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new...
A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially...
Step aside, Captain Kirk! Spock is the Enterprise'...
Spock may be renowned for his impeccable logic, but "Strange New Worlds" has offered a glimpse of th...
ERIS spots spiral disc around young star | Space p...
A possible planet may be carving the disc around the young star
Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery s...
Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals ...
New world record! Weather satellites detect 515-mi...
Meet the astonishing phenomenon of megaflash lightning.
The best new science fiction books of August 2025
From a fresh take on Stephen King’s The Stand to a new novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky set on a poisoned...
Nearby super-Earth K2-18 b may be a water-rich oce...
The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K...
Watch SpaceX launch Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS ...
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission are scheduled to launch toward the International Spa...
Ancient Siberian ice mummy is covered in 'really s...
Tattoos may have been widespread in prehistory, with scientists discovering a plethora of body art o...
SpaceX, NASA say Crew-11 astronaut mission is 'go'...
Mission managers with NASA and SpaceX polled 'go' to proceed with a launch attempt of the Crew-11 as...
JWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a ...
The James Webb Space Telescope's investigations of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 suggest a second st...
Human milk could help fight infections that endang...
The prebiotic properties of human milk could be harnessed to treat a bacterial strain known to cause...
'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' is a love letter...
From rocketships and exoplanets, to FTL and black holes, there's something for every space fan in Ma...
Artemis 2 astronauts stress importance of their mo...
NASA's next moon astronauts underscored the importance of their upcoming Artemis 2 mission despite a...
Human trials point the way towards an mRNA vaccine...
We may be a step closer to a highly effective mRNA vaccine against HIV, but tests so far reveal that...
US Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane laun...
The U.S. Space Force plans to launch the eighth mission of its mysterious X-37B space plane on Aug. ...
Kate Rubins, 1st astronaut to sequence DNA in spac...
NASA astronaut Kathleen “Kate” Rubins has retired from the space agency after 16 years, two missions...
Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease t...
New tests to gauge an individual's circadian rhythms could be put to good use helping night workers ...
Good news for Mars settlers? Red Planet glaciers a...
Martian glaciers are mostly pure ice across the Red Planet, suggesting they might potentially be use...
Saturn's largest moon Titan casts a colossal shado...
Efrain Morales captured the image of Titan's shadow darkening Saturn on July 18, while the gas giant...
Archaeologists are unearthing the most powerful wo...
Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehist...
How life thrives in one of the most hostile enviro...
Creatures that lurk more than 9000 metres deep in the Pacific Ocean get their nutrients from a surpr...
Extra-hard hexagonal diamonds can now be grown in ...
Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-toug...
Covid-19 and flu may reawaken dormant cancer cells...
Mice with a handful of cancerous cells in their lungs experienced a 100-fold increase to this number...
New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever f...
A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 cen...
Collaboration or collapse: Why Earth observation m...
Satellites don't stop at borders and neither should science.
Powerful NISAR Earth-observing satellite loaded up...
The satellite will scan the Earth twice every 12 days.
Ancient pots found near Pompeii contain 2500-year-...
A mysterious residue inside a set of ancient Greek pots from Paestum, Italy, has now been identified...
