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Spot dwarf planet Ceres during the new moon tonigh...
The dark skies of the new moon will offer skywatchers the chance to spot Ceres tonight (March 21), a...
Watch Rocket Lab launch 2 satellites, recover boos...
Rocket Lab plans to launch two satellites early Wednesday morning (March 22), on a mission that incl...
Astronauts that hibernate on long spaceflights is ...
First hibernation studies with human subjects could be feasible within a decade, a European Space Ag...
Watch solar tornado as tall as 14 Earths hurl plas...
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured what might be 'the tallest tornado' in the solar system s...
Bird flu may be making foxes and other animals beh...
Analysis of wild mammals infected with H5N1 bird flu in the US found that many had brain infections ...
Asteroids that speed up unexpectedly may be ‘dark ...
Some asteroids appear to accelerate in ways that can’t be accounted for by gravity, suggesting they ...
NASA climate change satellite back online after in...
A stricken Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) instrument is back online, but NASA officials d...
Two moons of Uranus may have active subsurface oce...
The Uranus moons Ariel and Miranda may have active oceans blasting plumes of particles into space, a...
Win a free copy of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S...
Space.com and Paramount are teaming together to offer a chance to win a free Blu-Ray Steelbook editi...
How much water lurks beneath an exoplanet's surfac...
A new method could allow astronomers to assess exoplanets' likely subsurface water stores, aiding th...
1st map of moon water could help Artemis astronaut...
Astronomers have completed the first map of water distribution on the moon, including that more wate...
Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz cr...
Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed f...
Virgin Orbit eyes options as it works to generate ...
Launch company Virgin Orbit is engaging companies for discussions after furloughing most of its staf...
Bad news for alien life? Even calm red dwarf stars...
Even quiet red dwarfs are prone to extreme outbursts that put our sun to shame, with significant imp...
Joby Compact Advanced tripod review
The Joby Compact Advanced tripod is small and compact, but is its small payload worth the price?
Is someone lying to you? A lack of detail may give...
A lack of detail may be the best indication that someone is lying to you, according to an investigat...
Astonishing 3D footage of ants recorded using 54-c...
An imaging technique has allowed researchers to record detailed three-dimensional video of small cre...
Orcas in the North Pacific may be dying out due to...
Habitat and hunting protections have helped orca numbers rebound globally, but a group in the North ...
Stephen Hawking's final theorem turns time and cau...
In his final years, Stephen Hawking tackled the question of why the universe appears fine-tuned for ...
Europa Clipper: A guide to NASA's new astrobiology...
The Europa Clipper is NASA's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Explore the mission in mo...
William Shatner reflects on his new film, 'Star Tr...
Variety interviewed William Shatner for his new life-spanning documentary 'You Can Call Me Bill.'
IPCC climate change report: Can we avoid 1.5°C of ...
The sixth synthesis report from the IPCC once again warns that without immediate and massive emissio...
Hubble Space Telescope spies 'irregular' spiral ga...
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures an irregular spiral galaxy known as NGC 5486, whic...
IPCC reporting hiatus could imperil political acti...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change isn't due to produce its next report until 2027, which...
Monster black hole may have killed this galaxy's s...
New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming powe...
Spring equinox 2023: Why day and night aren't actu...
The 2023 vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere occurs on 20 March, but it’s not strictly true th...
March equinox 2023 brings spring to the Northern H...
On March 20 at 5:24 p.m. EDT (2:24 p.m. PDT) the spring (or vernal) equinox occurs as the sun's rays...
This epic NASA map shows where to see US solar ecl...
A new NASA eclipse map shows where and when the annular solar eclipse on October 14, 2023, and the t...
Seven days to a fitter you: Read our top exercise ...
To celebrate the launch of our new Essential Guide all about exercise, New Scientist editors have se...
Algae-farming fish help coral reefs bounce back fr...
The presence of territorial farmerfish that look after algae gardens seems to help branching corals ...
The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 t...
When the universe's first stars emerged from the cosmic dark ages, they ballooned to 10,000 times th...
Equinox on March 20 means more stunning auroras ar...
Aurora hunters claim that, to look to the night sky in search of these beautiful displays, the dates...
Surprising newfound ocean bacteria could aid searc...
A newfound, highly adaptable bacterium shows the kind of diverse life to look for on Europa or Encel...
Your early life shapes the mix of good and bad vir...
We are beginning to learn how different factors influence the mixture of viruses in the guts of youn...
Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop miniature nucl...
The U.K. Space Agency has decided to continue funding a project by Rolls-Royce to create a small nuc...
Women's History Month: Retired NASA astronaut Jane...
Spacewalks and radiation limits were limiting career opportunities for NASA women astronauts. Janet ...
Women show signs of cellular ageing at 19 that hit...
Biopsy reports of nearly 5 million people suggest that markers that are thought to be signs of agein...
Quantum effects could be key to the chemistry of l...
Saturn’s moon Titan is too cold for many types of chemical reactions, but quantum tunnelling could p...
Bird flu cases are expected to surge as birds migr...
H5N1 cases in birds are expected to rise in the coming weeks as migratory species wing their way acr...
Europe's exoplanet-hunting CHEOPS mission extended...
The European Space Agency’s exoplanet-investigating spacecraft CHEOPS has had its mission extended u...
Quantum computers may finally have their first rea...
Methods to generate the random numbers we need for secure communications are all flawed in some way,...
New children's book celebrates pioneering astronom...
Pioneering American astronomer Maria Mitchell is the star of a children's book using an ancient lang...
Watch the moon meet up with Saturn in the pre-dawn...
The moon meets up with Saturn early on Sunday (March 19) with the two celestial objects in conjuncti...
Protein fragments that repair skin damage could be...
When applied to skin on the forearms, two of these fragments increased levels of key structures that...
Chinese scientists hold out hope for silent Zhuron...
China's Zhurong Mars rover may be stuck, but scientists using data from the mission are still hopefu...
SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites, lands rock...
SpaceX aced its 18th orbital mission of 2023 on Friday (March 17), launching 52 of its Starlink inte...
