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Watch Rocket Lab launch shoebox-sized NASA climate...
Rocket Lab will launch the second of two cubesats for NASA's PREFIRE climate change mission tonight ...
Massive, magnetic stars beyond the Milky Way detec...
Astronomers have detected giant, magnetic stars outside the Milky Way for the first time. These infa...
NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet passes key safe...
NASA's new X-59 supersonic jet has successfully completed its Flight Readiness Review, marking a piv...
China's Chang'e 6 probe to land on far side of the...
China's Chang'e 6 moon mission is studying landing sites on the lunar far side for accessibility ahe...
Opticron Oregon 4 PC Oasis 10X42 monocular review
There is an instant feel of quality in this rugged and easy-to-use Opticron Oregon 4 PC Oasis 10X42 ...
Starliner launch: When is Boeing testing its crewe...
Boeing's Starliner capsule had a helium leak in one of its thrusters, but it is still scheduled to l...
Elusive medium-size black holes may form in dense ...
A new simulation has shown elusive intermediate-mass black holes may form in dense globular clusters...
How NASA's OSIRIS-APEX asteroid probe survived its...
OSIRIS-APEX emerged unscathed from its first of six close brushes with the sun, thanks to some cleve...
Bioelectronic patch uses living bacteria to treat ...
One of the first bioelectronic devices to combine living bacteria with sensors has successfully impr...
James Webb Space Telescope spots the 2 earliest ga...
James Webb Space Telescope has spotted the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen. One, JA...
Boeing's Starliner rolls out to pad for June 1 ast...
Boeing's Starliner capsule rolled out to the pad today (May 30) ahead of its first-ever astronaut la...
Japan loses contact with Akatsuki, humanity's only...
The Japanese space agency has lost contact with its intrepid Venus orbiter, Akatsuki.
China is about to land on the far side of the moon...
Landing on the far side of the moon is rarely attempted, due to difficulties communicating with Eart...
Cleaner ship emissions may warm the planet far fas...
A 2020 rule that slashed air pollution from ships may have boosted global temperatures sooner than t...
Solar Orbiter traces solar wind back to its myster...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has, for the first time, traced solar wind in space to a s...
Chicks link shapes with 'bouba' and 'kiki' sounds ...
Humans from many cultures tend to associate the nonsense words “bouba” and “kiki” with different sha...
Space debris from SpaceX Dragon capsule crashed in...
A large piece of debris was found on a mountainside in North Carolina last week, suspected to be lef...
Our writers pick their favourite science fiction b...
We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books. Here are the results, ra...
See the moon and Saturn meet in the night sky earl...
Saturn will appear just above the third quarter moon in the sky in the early hours of Friday (May 31...
Astronaut's diary found among fallen space shuttle...
The journal pages of Israel's first astronaut have been added to the country's national library, mor...
'Unluckiest star' may be trapped in deadly dance w...
A star in a distant galaxy appears to have been almost torn apart in a close shave with a supermassi...
James Webb Space Telescope finds a dusty skeleton ...
The James Webb Space Telescope caught the Magellanic-like galaxy NGC 4449 is undergoing an intense b...
The 'Star Trek: Discovery' series finale is a mixe...
The "Star Trek: Discovery" finale seems to serve chiefly as a launch vehicle for the forthcoming Sec...
If the Big Bang created miniature black holes, whe...
Primordial black holes born from density fluctuations dating back to the Big Bang have been frustrat...
Starliner capsule's 1st astronaut mission cleared ...
The first-ever astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule, known as Crew Flight Test, is "go" fo...
SpaceX fuels Starship megarocket again to prep for...
SpaceX fueled up its Starship rocket again on Tuesday (May 28), continuing preparations for the gian...
Watch Russian cargo ship launch toward the ISS ear...
Russia will launch the robotic Progress 88 freighter toward the International Space Station early Th...
Watch Chinese company launch 4 satellites to orbit...
The Chinese company Galactic Energy sent four satellites into orbit on Wednesday (May 29) with the s...
Smartphone use can actually help teenagers boost t...
A survey of 253 US teens has found that, on average, their mood lifted after using their smartphones...
Babies group together their squeals and growls to ...
Babies seem to cluster together their squeals and growling noises, rather than making them sporadica...
'Star Trek #500' cover showcases a commanding coll...
A preview of IDW Publishing's "Star Trek #500" special issue that pays homage to the series' many un...
Watch 1st 'Star Wars: Hunters' gameplay trailer ah...
We’ll soon be playing 'Star Wars: Hunters' on Nintendo Switch and mobile phones, and the latest game...
