Science
How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower whereve...
The Perseids are a major meteor shower - here is your guide to spotting them in July and August 2023...
Celebrate 400 years of moon maps for Apollo 11's a...
The Library of Congress has 400 years of moon maps from around the world. Explore the moon in centur...
Interstellar meteor fragments found? Harvard astro...
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb believes he has found pieces of the first known interstellar meteorite. ...
'Hidden' photons could shed light on mysterious da...
A new super-cool technique could shed light on a hidden dark matter candidate known as 'dark photons...
Lego robot used to make DNA structures for tiny ma...
A robot made of Lego can speed up and simplify building tiny structures out of DNA that could be use...
Join the Sith and hunt Jedi in 'Star Wars: Inquisi...
Award-winning sci-fi fantasy author Delilah Dawson turns to the dark side in her new novel "Star War...
Ancient humans hunted animals by throwing a stick ...
Analysis of a wooden stick thought to be around 300,000 years old suggests it was designed to be thr...
Weirdly 'slow' neutron star challenges our underst...
Astronomers have observed a 'slow' magnetar releasing bursts of radio waves every 22 minutes. The st...
James Webb Space Telescope makes 1st detection of ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has observed carbon dust in distant and early galaxies in a discovery...
1st evidence found for ‘Trojan planet’ worlds occu...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of a so-called 'Trojan planet,' in the form of a young Jup...
Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and...
A strange star more than 1300 light years away appears to have two sides with completely different c...
1st Barbie dolls to fly into space make their debu...
The National Air and Space Museum debuted the first Barbie dolls to fly in space. They appear to be ...
Revealed: What your thoughts look like and how the...
We finally have a grasp on the many different ways of thinking and how your inner mindscape affects ...
Sold-out Taylor Swift concert spied from space (sa...
A BlackSky satellite captured a series of shots leading up to Taylor Swift's July 15 show in Denver,...
BetaFPV Cetus X review: An exceptional FPV drone f...
Enter the immersive world of FPV drones with the BetaFPV Cetus X, a great ready-to-fly kit that can ...
Rocket Lab recovers Electron booster from Pacific ...
Rocket Lab pulled one of its boosters from the sea after a launch on Monday (July 17), taking anothe...
Distant planet may be the first known to share its...
Exoplanet PDS 70b, a gas giant seven times the mass of Jupiter, appears to share an orbit with a bal...
Chronic constipation is associated with cognitive ...
A large study found that infrequent bowel movements are associated with a 73 per cent increased risk...
Secret Invasion season 1 episode 5 review: Pain an...
Ahead of its finale, Marvel's Secret Invasion puts some pressure on its villains and gives Nick Fury...
Here's how ISS astronauts jettison old space stati...
With a thumbs-up, NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg showed how space station astronauts use a Canadian rob...
Alcoholic fruit may help plants recruit mammals to...
Measurements of alcohol levels in fruits collected in a Costa Rican forest reveal that those eaten b...
Scientists discover 'glitched' neutron star that o...
A powerful magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, "glitched" when it destroyed an asteroid, causing it ...
You can see Mars, Venus and Mercury near the cresc...
Mars, Venus and Mercury will appear close to a thin crescent moon tonight (July 19), but you'll need...
AI creates a realistic video of you dancing from a...
An artificial intelligence trained on TikTok videos could help you take part in dance trends without...
Exotic pentaquark particle found at CERN's Large H...
A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider....
Sheets of fungus could be used as eco-friendly fir...
Fungi can be pressed into thin sheets that resist fire by forming a protective char on the outside, ...
SpaceX aborts Starlink satellite launch with 5 sec...
SpaceX aborted the planned launch of 15 Starlink internet satellites early Wednesday (July 19) with ...
Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos
To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, Dead Planets Society, New Scientist editors have selecte...
Fire-in-space experiment could soon make its way t...
The last of six planned fire-in-space experiments will soon launch toward the International Space St...
An ancient red giant star created a rare 'bipolar'...
A dying red giant star and the remains of a stellar companion it shredded long ago have created a ra...
Cats in space! New 'Captain Ginger' comic unveils ...
The intrepid Captain Ginger returns in "The Last Feeder," a comic series featuring an homage to one ...
'Meteorite' that struck French woman was just a re...
The viral story of a French woman supposedly struck by a meteorite has been questioned by experts, w...
Auroras across the solar system are powered in the...
The way in which the radiant displays of colors in the sky known as auroras form on Earth may be how...
Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of w...
What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society pod...
Brain scans are putting a major theory of consciou...
A proposed way to measure consciousness called integrated information theory has been tested using d...
NASA's Mars Sample Return in jeopardy after US Sen...
A budget review from the Senate Appropriations Committee is suggesting NASA consider canceling Mars ...
Amazing fossil hints mammals hunted dinosaurs thre...
A small mammal from the Cretaceous Period appears to have been preserved by volcanic debris while at...
'Ghost stars' haunt the center of the Milky Way ga...
The galactic bulge at the heart of the Milky Way is haunted by the ghosts of dead stars spread out a...
Placenta: The overlooked organ with a lifelong imp...
The placenta is an incredible organ that we grow for a short period of time, yet it has a surprising...
Is Alzheimer’s drug donanemab really a 'turning po...
The experimental drug donanemab slows the progression of Alzheimer's disease compared with a placebo...
