Science
We didn't find answers in 2025, but UFO researcher...
"Science doesn't always go as planned. In any case, there's a lot of work to be done."
The best space pictures of 2025, from supernovae t...
The year’s most memorable moments from astronomy and space exploration include a double-detonating s...
How 2025 became the year of comet: The rise of int...
Highlights from a cometary trio that captured our imaginations.
Artemis 2 moon rocket gets 'America 250' paint job...
The "America 250" logo commemorates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration...
How lab-grown lichen could help us to build habita...
Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implicati...
Gene therapy for Huntington’s disease showed great...
An experimental gene therapy seems to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease by about 75 per c...
Doomed SpaceX Starlink satellite photographed from...
We just got a great up-close look at a SpaceX Starlink satellite that recently suffered an anomaly i...
Best targets to observe between Christmas and New ...
From a crescent moon and a 'Christmas Star' to deep sky delights, the wonders of the holiday night s...
Europa's thick ice may hinder the search for life ...
The liquid ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa appears to be completely sealed off from the planet’s surf...
South Korean startup Innospace fails on its 1st or...
The South Korean startup Innospace failed during its first orbital launch attempt, which sent five s...
Nebula knowledge: Do you know these stunning space...
Test your cosmic eye: can you match these dazzling nebula images to their names?
The best sci-fi TV shows of 2025, ranked
Watch those skies! In 2025, quality television really did come from outer space.
12 days of space and sci-fi books: Check out these...
Yuletide season is officially upon us and here's a joyous array of new titles to add to your holiday...
How to track Santa Claus this Christmas Eve with N...
NORAD celebrates its 70th year of tracking Santa Claus as he flies around the world delivering joy t...
Rocket Lab launches final mission of 2025, sends J...
Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japan...
Meet Qingzhou, China's next-gen cargo craft for it...
Qingzhou is a lighter and potentially lower-cost alternative to China's Tianzhou freighter.
New Scientist changed the UK's freedom of informat...
By requesting copies of the then-UK technology secretary's ChatGPT logs, New Scientist set a precede...
10 space zombie movies, books, and games to prepar...
From space slugs to lunar cemeteries, these movies, games, and books show that the undead can arrive...
The essential guide to proving we’ve found alien l...
From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterres...
Satellites reveal heat leaking from largest US cry...
Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orb...
NASA launches science balloon in Antarctica | Spac...
The first scientific balloon flight happened on Dec. 16, 2025.
NASA's SPHEREx telescope completes its 1st cosmic ...
"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the wo...
You can upgrade your immune system, but not in the...
From vitamin C to your microbiome and mindset, the latest science of immunity is often counterintuit...
Hopes of finding aliens were raised in 2025 – but ...
Astronomers thought they had seen the "first hints of life on an alien world" this year, but they di...
10 times the sky amazed us in 2025
A bevy of comets, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse and impressive northern lights were just three ...
Black hole stars really do exist in the early univ...
Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind o...
Japanese H3 rocket fails during launch of navigati...
A Japanese H3 rocket suffered an anomaly during the launch of a navigation satellite on Sunday night...
What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the n...
We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson...
Best space board games to play this Christmas
Enjoy some out-of-this-world fun this Christmas with my selection of the best space board games avai...
Planet-eating stars hint at Earth's ultimate fate
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
Starship success, a private moon landing and more:...
Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new roc...
Ursid meteor shower 2025 peaks tonight: Here's wha...
Ursid shooting stars may be visible throughout the night on Dec. 21-22.
Who are the Sea Devils? The classic 'Doctor Who' m...
As the veteran 'Who' antagonists get ready for their close-up, we look back at 50 years of underwate...
Winter solstice 2025 marks the shortest day of the...
Today marks the shortest day and longest night of the year as the sun reaches its lowest point in th...
When are the next best sales after Black Friday?
Black Friday offers massive discounts on a host of products, but you don't have to wait until the ne...
The best Stranger Things gifts to celebrate season...
You don't have to search the upside down to find the best Stranger Things gifts outside of Hawkins, ...
James Cameron's sci-fi movies ranked, worst to bes...
As Avatar: Fire and Ash makes its cinematic debut, here's James Cameron's best directorial sci-fi mo...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 190 — Holiday ...
On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space —...
'Enemy Mine' at 40: An empathetic space adventure ...
Hated rivals Dennis Quaid and Lou Gossett Jr. find brotherhood on a desolate planet in Wolfgang Pete...
How the 'delayed choice quantum eraser' experiment...
Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes agains...
Looking for a skywatching Christmas gift? We have ...
Are you behind on your holiday shopping or holding out for some final pre-Christmas bargains? From t...
The best last-minute holiday gifts for any die har...
Show the space enthusiast in your life that you love them to the moon and back with the best last-mi...
Mysterious bright blue cosmic blasts triggered by ...
"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a ...
Lego has gone boldly where they have never gone be...
The 3,600-piece Lego Icons Star Trek USS Enterprise is Lego's first-ever Star Trek set, and you get ...
Astronomers may have spotted the 1st known 'superk...
"We do not know with certainty that we found a superkilonova, but the event nevertheless is eye-open...
These 2 companies are teaming up to offer insuranc...
Odin Space and Arkisys are teaming up to provide customers with pioneering insurance for spacecraft ...
As Avatar returns to theaters, there's never been ...
Ubisoft's ambitious open-world game remains the best way to immerse yourself in Pandora's lush local...
Love capturing the cosmos? Make your money go furt...
Whether you're buying for yourself or hunting for a gift for a keen astrophotographer, there's still...
2 of Earth's rarest lightning phenomena captured s...
A photographer in Italy captured an ultra-rare elve and red sprite flashing above the Alps in a sing...
James Webb Space Telescope watches 'Jekyll and Hyd...
"Virgil has two personalities, its 'good' side – a typical young galaxy quietly forming stars. But V...
