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Don't miss the crescent moon shining close to Mars...
As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will launch its biggest Star...
SpaceX plans to launch the new "Version 3" of its Starship megarocket by the end of 2025 and is work...
Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it ...
A newly found object could be a dwarf planet that contradicts the Planet Nine hypothesis.
Northern lights may be visible in these 15 US Stat...
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Oregon as speedy solar winds fuel geomagnetic storm conditions...
Should you still learn a second language if AI can...
Artificial intelligence has removed many of the barriers to understanding a new language, but there ...
PTSD in 9/11 responders didn’t start improving for...
Most 9/11 first responders experienced improvement in PTSD symptoms about 10 years after the traumat...
How does the pill affect your brain? We're finally...
Millions of women and teenage girls use oral contraception, but we are only now getting an idea of w...
Astronomers discover black hole ripping a star apa...
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding g...
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If you're looking for one of the best streaming deals around you can get nearly 70% off an annual su...
Our verdict on Ringworld by Larry Niven: Nice math...
Culture editor Alison Flood rounds up the New Scientist Book Club’s thoughts on our latest read, the...
Read an extract from time-travel novel The Ministr...
In this short extract from Kaliane Bradley's sci-fi novel, her protagonist makes a startling discove...
'Time travel was just a metaphor for controlling a...
The Ministry of Time author Kaliane Bradley on how she made time travel work in her bestselling nove...
Watch SpaceX launch advanced GPS satellite for US ...
SpaceX is set to launch an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force today (May 30), less than...
'One of the most geometrically perfect': What is t...
A supernova remnant (SNR) discovered by astrophysicist Miroslav Filipović of Western Sydney Universi...
First evidence of ancient birds nesting above the ...
Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million ...
Leprosy was in the Americas long before the arriva...
The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals...
SpaceX aiming for record-breaking 170 orbital laun...
SpaceX is targeting a whopping 170 orbital liftoffs in 2025, which would shatter the record the comp...
See a lunar scar darken the crescent moon on May 3...
Lunar maria or 'seas' formed when lava flooded impact basins billions of years ago.
Who is the best Doctor? Every 'Doctor Who' ranked
We step inside the TARDIS to rank every Doctor so far, from William Hartnell through to Ncuti Gatwa....
Behind the camera: Astronauts talk with students f...
NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi spoke wi...
Dust devil on Mars photobombs NASA Perseverance ro...
NASA's Perseverance rover has marked a milestone with a spectacular new selfie, and a surprise visit...
Sampling a 'quasi-moon': What's next for China's n...
China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a samp...
Meet the crew of Blue Origin's NS-32 space tourism...
Blue Origin's next suborbital flight is scheduled to launch on Saturday (May 31), carrying a diverse...
Canon RF 35mm f/1.4L VCM lens review
The Canon RF 35mm f/1.4L VCM is a longer wide-angle lens offering a versatile focal length for photo...
Scientists capture never-before-seen plasma stream...
Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbul...
Will SpaceX’s Starship rocket ever work - and what...
The failure of SpaceX’s ninth Starship launch has raised fresh concerns about the future of the rock...
Amazing images reveal new details in the sun's atm...
City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images...
Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build q...
Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Sta...
Could time travel tourism be the next space touris...
Can we journey through time? Sci-fi author Dete Meserve presents a compelling case for our future in...
Can we protect historical sites on the moon before...
A number of groups and individuals say there's a need to protect lunar history before it's too late....
Dark chocolate is rich in flavanols. Does that mak...
Antioxidants like cocoa flavanols may benefit heart health, brain ageing and the microbiome. Columni...
Before the Great Wall, Chinese rulers built a shal...
A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years...
We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human...
For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains...
Massive glacier collapse triggers landslide that b...
Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a near...
How your whole imagination is conjured up from thr...
Understanding the neurological systems that produce the world inside your head can help you to harne...
25 years ago, 'Mission to Mars' and 'Red Planet' h...
Two Hollywood Mars films celebrate their 25th birthday this year. Which one takes the cake?
'This is an attack on NASA.' Space agency's larges...
The Trump administration is closing a historic NASA science office in the name of efficiency, but cr...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting May 31 for 12th ...
Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' aerospace company, is targeting Saturday (May 31) for its 12th human spacef...
Can imagining a better future really make it come ...
Manifestation is easy to dismiss as unscientific nonsense. Certain techniques used in the practice, ...
Do we have free will? Quantum experiments may soon...
Whether or not we have partial free will could soon be resolved by experiments in quantum physics, w...
Astronomers discover mystery cosmic body bursting ...
The mystery surrounding a strange cosmic object, or 'long-period transient,' has deepened. This obje...
How visualisation sets you up for success by chang...
The vividness of your mind’s eye isn't fixed - and training it up is the secret tool of top athletes...
Fossils show puzzling lack of evolution during las...
Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evol...
A 'smiley face' will appear in the night sky on Ma...
The universe will smile back at us on May 29, thanks to an uncanny cosmic alignment
Best dedicated astrophotography cameras in 2025
Browse our list of the best dedicated astrophotography cameras.
SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites from Florid...
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast today (May 28...
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Earth-observing sa...
Rocket Lab plans to launch an Earth-observing satellite for the company BlackSky tonight (May 28), a...
Photographer captures ghostly ripples over Colorad...
Aaron Watson captured slightly more than he bargained for when setting up a timelapse to capture air...
You can make fair dice from any shape you like
Want to roll an armadillo when you play Dungeons & Dragons, instead of standard dice? Now you ca...
We’re getting close to recreating the first step i...
Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to a...
