Science
Pixar's 'Elio' trailer reveals Earth's pint-sized ...
Pixar drops the first teaser trailer for 2024's family-friendly sci-fi fantasy, "Elio," in which a y...
US Space Force wants private companies to help it ...
The U.S. Space Force recently opened the COSMIC center, a new office aimed at taking advantage of a ...
Watch SpaceX launch Indonesian satellite this even...
SpaceX will launch an Indonesian communications satellite to orbit and land the returning rocket at ...
Astronaut Sally Ride brought women and the LGBTQ+ ...
Sally Ride's journey to space not only continues to inspire young students 4 decades later, but show...
A star has been eating an orbiting planet for 85 y...
A distant star called FU Orionis has been shining extraordinarily bright for the last 85 years, and ...
UK river pollution monitoring is 50 years out of d...
Levels of pollutants in the UK's rivers are tested by random sampling, a method that experts say is ...
How you can help save Britain's rivers by becoming...
As part of New Scientist's Save Britain's Rivers campaign, we've rounded up the best citizen science...
China launches national-record 41 satellites on si...
A Long March 2D rocket lifted off from China on June 15, carrying 41 satellites to orbit. China's pr...
El Niño is officially here, scientists say
After months of warning, experts have confirmed that the ocean-warming event El Niño is here and wil...
Alien green flash: Lightning crackles in vortex ne...
NASA's Juno spacecraft snapped a photo of a lightning strike high in the swirling clouds near Jupite...
Where did Earth get its water? It was sucked up fr...
New research suggests our planet was born from a rapid accumulation of tiny pebbles and icy fragment...
New parachute system could ease some of China's ro...
A new parachute system could reduce the risk posed by Chinese satellite launches from inland spacepo...
Brain activity 'barcodes' may be linked to specifi...
Neural recordings from chickadees have found unique patterns of activity that occur when they hide f...
Use the dark new moon of June to see 5 visible pla...
The new moon phase officially occurs on June 18 at 12:38 a.m. EDT (0438 GMT). During this phase, the...
Look up and see Saturn as it changes directions in...
Saturn enters retrograde on June 17, shifting from its usual eastward movement to travel westwards t...
Male flies are better at mating after fighting off...
Lab-reared insects sometimes struggle to compete for mates with wild males, but an encounter with a ...
Humans have pumped so much groundwater, we’ve shif...
Changes in the distribution of groundwater around the planet between 1993 and 2010 were enough to ma...
Viral YouTube video explains NASA's search for ali...
A new viral video by a NASA astrobiologist explains the space agency's efforts to find out whether w...
Large Hadron Collider may be closing in on the uni...
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider are closing in on an explanation for why we live in a univer...
Record breaker! New fastest star zooms through Mil...
Two of six newly discovered runaway stars launched by supernovas have broken the record for the fast...
Surprise! Jupiter's ocean moon Europa may not have...
The core of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa might have formed billions of years after the rest of it did...
Wildfire smoke in North America could be creating ...
Particles from wildfire smoke may cause the formation of cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere far aw...
Astronaut watches Cyclone Biparjoy swirl over the ...
United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi shared a video clip from the International Space Sta...
See latest configuration of China's Tiangong space...
New footage released by China's human spaceflight agency shows the Tiangong space station in its new...
AIs will become useless if they keep learning from...
If language models such as ChatGPT are trained using outputs of other AIs, they will become heavily ...
PhotoPills app review
Slick and easy to use, the PhotoPills app is perfect for planning and taking stunning shots of the M...
James Webb Space Telescope gets satellite sidekick...
A new small satellite will peer at distant stars to help NASA's James Webb Space Telescope search fo...
Why 2023 is shaping up to be the hottest year on r...
Global weather conditions are showing extraordinary levels of heating this year. With this adding to...
'Foundation' Season 2 trailer teases 'despair, dea...
Apple TV+ unwrapped a new full trailer for this summer's sophomore season of "Foundation," a televis...
Pay-monthly option for heat pumps could help Europ...
Customers in the UK, Germany and Italy will soon be able to replace gas boilers with heat pumps from...
What is Picard Day? 'Star Trek' fans make it so on...
Here we explain why June 16 has become an annual celebration of Jean-Luc Picard, legendary commandin...
Weird stink bug with forked horns and tusks discov...
A multicoloured stink bug found in Western Australia has forked horns for camouflage, mysterious pat...
Star Wars: Visions season 2 episodes ranked, worst...
The Emmy-nominated animated anthology Star Wars Visions returns to Disney+ and we're counting down t...
Artistic artefacts are rewriting the timeline of a...
A slew of newly found artefacts in South America are revealing surprisingly familiar ways ancient pe...
When Johnny met Sally: 'The first woman in space' ...
Three spaceflight anniversaries have a nexus of sorts, in a comic strip that ran in newspapers over ...
Inflatable moon telescope could peer into universe...
European scientists are developing an inflatable radio telescope concept that could do groundbreakin...
Strange, spiny beetle discovered in Japan
A new-to-science species of beetle is marked by a distinct yellow band on its shoulders, long hair-l...
Virgin Galactic will launch its 1st commercial spa...
Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first commercial spaceflight on June 27, with the second followi...
'Weird' game of cosmic tug-of-war in the Tarantula...
Astronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding t...
The moon and Mercury meet in the bright red 'eye o...
The moon and Mercury will come close to the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Tau...
Geminid meteor shower spawned by violent asteroid ...
The Geminid meteor shower, which happens every December, comes from a space rock with a comet-like t...
Reef sharks are being wiped out by overfishing so ...
A global survey reveals that common species of coral reef shark are in sharp decline, and rays are m...
Ancient plant's leaves didn't follow golden rule a...
Most modern plants grow leaves in a pattern that follows the Fibonacci sequence, but a reconstructio...
Chemists have solved a decades-long problem of bon...
Atoms of a metal don't like to bond with one another, but chemists have succeeded in forging a metal...
Astronauts unfurl final (for now) roll-out solar a...
NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen deployed the sixth and last (for now) upgraded solar ...
Light pollution poses serious threat to astronomy,...
Astronomers are once again ringing alarm bells about rising light pollution destroying pristine nigh...
What are 'synthetic embryos' and why are scientist...
The first human embryo-like structures have been created from stem cells, in a move that could help ...
