Science
The 2025 full Flower Moon rises tonight: Here's ho...
When and where to catch the 2025 full Flower Moon rise tonight (May 12).
How do you keep reusable spacecraft cool during re...
An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the sco...
Calling citizen scientists! Help NASA's Galaxy Zoo...
Through a citizen science project called Galaxy Zoo, volunteers can help astronomers analyze over 50...
'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld' producer talk...
'They are undoubtedly villains. They murder people in cold blood.'
Playmobil, ESA partner on toy starter pack for a s...
They have taken them to space (for real) and advised on their futuristic Mars vehicles. Now the Euro...
New Mexico's Spaceport America looks up and into t...
Spaceport America is the first purpose-built commercial spaceport in the world — but its executive d...
I went to STARMUS La Palma for science and music —...
On a volcanic island under some of the darkest skies on Earth, I rediscovered the night sky and came...
The face looks familiar, but who's the other Time ...
A brief flashback in this Nigeria-set episode dives deep into the Doctor's past.
Need for speed? Watch this thrilling video from hi...
Stratolaunch released a thrilling new video documenting its second hypersonic flight and full recove...
Amateur astronomer reveals a colorful portrait of ...
Amateur astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming r...
Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to E...
The Soviet Union's failed Kosmos 482 Venus lander fell back to Earth today (May 10), bringing a five...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 160 — The Amaz...
On Episode 160 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Charles Slatkin to talk...
It's been one year since the most intense solar st...
It's been one year since the historic Gannon Storm lit up the night sky with auroras and piqued inte...
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit fr...
SpaceX sent 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast this morning (May 10), its se...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellite...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (May 9), carrying 26 St...
Does intermittent fasting improve gut health? Why ...
While intermittent fasting may be growing in popularity, relatively little is known about how it imp...
AI hallucinations are getting worse – and they're ...
An AI leaderboard suggests the newest reasoning models used in chatbots are producing less accurate ...
AI-dubbed Swedish sci-fi movie 'Watch the Skies' c...
Pour some coffee for our exclusive chat with the talented Scandinavian filmmaker, Victor Danell, as ...
The everyday ways climate change is already making...
Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many small...
President Trump nominates former Air Force colonel...
President Trump has picked former Air Force colonel Matt Anderson to be second in command at NASA.
Doomed star circling supermassive black hole could...
Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orb...
US military taps Rocket Lab’s new Neutron launcher...
Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance...
We finally have a release date for 'Foundation' se...
The lavish galactic saga of "Foundation" returns to Apple TV+ on July 11, starring Lee Pace, Jared H...
Was a famous supernova an alien invader from anoth...
Kepler's Supernova, seen in 1604, is one of the most famous exploding stars ever seen, and now astro...
Face to face with a galaxy | Space photo of the da...
The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is viewed face-on in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that inco...
Chimps share 'building blocks of musical rhythm' w...
Just like humans, chimps have rhythm when drumming, which suggests that the trait evolved in our com...
Hubble Telescope sees wandering black hole slurpin...
Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its galaxy ripping a star to shreds — of...
All living things emit an eerie glow that is snuff...
Our bodies emit a stream of low-energy photons, and now experiments in mice have revealed that this ...
The US isn't prepared for a big solar storm, exerc...
A first-of a-kind space weather "tabletop" exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America's prepa...
Best solar telescopes 2025: Safely observe sun spo...
The best solar telescopes suitable for the next solar eclipse.
See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the So...
A new image from Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite shows the huge Antarctic iceberg A-23A stu...
Is the fungal science in The Last of Us going off ...
With season 2 unfolding, the science of the fungal horror drama is becoming shakier. It is a pity th...
Our favourite science fiction books of all time (t...
Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite ...
Watch the moon and bright star Spica meet in a cel...
I think we know who's supplying the c(r)atering for this dance party.
ZWO Seestar S30 all-in-one smart telescope review
Small but mighty, the ZWO Seestar S30 is an affordable, portable instrument that's great for observi...
Europe increasingly vulnerable to hailstones the s...
Very large hail – hailstones more than 5 centimetres in diameter – poses a growing threat to Europe ...
Cosmic imposter bathes distant nebula in fiery red...
The brilliant blue-white star lighting up the red nebula Sh2-46 hints at a dynamic and possibly flee...
A failed Soviet Venus probe is expected to fall to...
The Soviet Venus probe Kosmos 482 is expected to fall to Earth on May 10, but exactly when and where...
China uses 'gravity slingshot' to rescue pair of w...
After a pair of satellites failed to reach their desired orbit around the moon last year, China used...
Failed Soviet probe will soon crash to Earth – and...
Kosmos 482, a Soviet spacecraft that never made it beyond Earth’s orbit on its way to Venus, is due ...
A failed Soviet Venus probe is falling to Earth, a...
The Virtual Telescope Project aims to observe the anticipated reentry of the former Soviet Union's C...
What will happen to VIPER? NASA shifts into revers...
NASA is no longer asking U.S. companies for proposals to get the ice-hunting VIPER rover to the moon...
A failed Soviet Venus probe is falling to Earth. H...
Recent sighting of spacecraft and debris burning through the atmosphere during their plummet back to...
US Space Force test fires thrusters for moon surve...
The U.S. Space Force tested a new propulsion system designed for satellites that will keep tabs on s...
Satellites show 28 US cities are sinking, includin...
A new study has found that the 28 most populous cities in the United States — including New York, Ch...
Astronaut Scott Kelly joins 'Mission Dry', stars i...
Astronauts are helping to destigmatize a childhood experience by pointing out the similarities betwe...
Planet hunter Plato gets its eyes | Space photo of...
Plato, the European Space Agency's terrestrial planet hunter spacecraft, is seen after having 24 of ...
Teenage drama is interrupted by extraterrestrial p...
Weird electromagnetic mayhem breaks out in this thrilling new preview.
A stadium-sized asteroid will fly past Earth on Ma...
The 950-foot hunk of primordial matter is classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid," but that...
