Science
Last chance to see comet Nishimura before it vanis...
The comet Nishimura is heading away from the sun and on to the outer reaches of the solar system, so...
Artemis 2 astronaut crew suits up for moon launch ...
The Artemis 2 crew did a launch day simulation on Sept. 20 for their 2024 moon mission. Seven key gr...
Exquisite spider fossils from Australia offer clue...
A large brush-footed trapdoor spider and a small jumping spider from the Miocene Epoch between 11 an...
NASA’s Psyche mission to a metal asteroid may reve...
The Psyche mission is scheduled to begin its journey to an asteroid of the same name on 5 October – ...
Net zero delay won't help when UK is already behin...
Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and gr...
New Scientist Live: What we are most looking forwa...
Here’s what members of the New Scientist editorial team are keenest to catch at the world’s greatest...
Next stop, Europa? Nano subs to get test beneath A...
A European collaboration aims to break through some of the technological barriers to the exploration...
Eris and Makemake might be hiding unexpected ocean...
Dwarf planets aren’t expected to carry liquid water, but hints of surprising geological activity spo...
How NASA's OSIRIS-REx will bring asteroid samples ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will face one of the toughest parts of its journey: Protecting samples tak...
Young seabird couples get 'divorced' with little i...
Thick-billed murres normally mate for life, but young couples are more likely to break up, despite s...
Human noise pollution drives monkeys to rely on co...
Tamarins living near cities in the Amazon Rainforest use odour to communicate nearly twice as often ...
Virgin Galactic's next flight will take a Pakistan...
Namira Slim will become the first person from Pakistan to reach space on Virgin Galactic's 'Galactic...
$100,000 Breakthrough physics prize awarded to 3 s...
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on lar...
Bang! Inflatable space station module blows apart ...
Sierra Space's latest explosion with its LIFE module tested a metal plate inside an inflatable struc...
'Dark earth' made by Amazon farmers stores carbon ...
Nutrient-rich soil known as “dark earth” has been cultivated by Indigenous farmers in the Amazon for...
Corkscrew-shaped microbot could use sound to spira...
Microscopic helical robot travels through narrow tubes when exposed to sound, and could eventually b...
Suppressing worrying thoughts may improve our ment...
Rather than recalling and focusing on fearful thoughts, it might sometimes be useful to avoid these ...
Prehistoric people in Spain may have made tools fr...
The Cueva de los Marmoles cave in Granada, Spain, was used as a prehistoric human burial site. Resea...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies through major coro...
The sun-kissing spacecraft watched as dust particles were displaced across 6 million miles (9.7 mill...
Evidence of mysterious 'recurring nova' that could...
The star T CrB flares up every 80 years. A document from 1217 could help confirm its regularity.
Rishi Sunak's weakening of UK net-zero policy is a...
Cutting carbon emissions means replacing the heating systems in homes, transforming transport and gr...
Holly tree species not seen by scientists in 200 y...
No sightings of the Pernambuco holly tree had been confirmed since the species was first identified ...
New Hubble image reveals intergalactic bridge betw...
A faint "bridge" of gas connects two colliding galaxies in a new photo from the Hubble Space Telesco...
Water ice on the moon may be key for future space ...
There may be less water ice trapped in the permanently shadowed regions on the moon than previously ...
Comet Nishimura photobombs NASA spacecraft after i...
Comet Nishimura has surprised NASA by photobombing its STEREO spacecraft, revealing it seems to have...
Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 4...
We tend to think that ancient humans were constantly on the move, but at a site in Zambia there are ...
China's astronauts have been tending a "space gard...
The astronauts of the Shenzhou 16 mission have been cultivating vegetables as part of their science ...
Brain damage linked to schizophrenia may spread as...
Brain scans show loss of tissue starting in small areas when people first experience psychosis, and ...
Silkworms genetically engineered to produce pure s...
Spider silk has been seen as a greener alternative to artificial fibres like nylon and Kevlar, but s...
How dark matter-powered stars could solve a huge c...
Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the annihilation of dark matter parti...
'Ahsoka' season 1 episode 6 review: Myths and lege...
The sixth episode of Ahsoka expands the "Star Wars" universe with new bits of mythology and iconogra...
OSIRIS-REx's asteroid sample will come down to Ear...
The return capsule of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to touch down in Utah on Sept. 24, bear...
Supermassive black holes eat more quickly than exp...
Supermassive black holes are even more fearsome eaters than scientists suspected, thanks to a "deliv...
UK's Online Safety Bill to become law, but can it ...
After years of political wrangling, wide-ranging online rules are about to become UK law - but compl...
Auroras galore! Solar storm slams into Earth and s...
A strong geomagnetic storm sparked by a coronal mass ejection triggered impressive aurora light show...
Vaccine that erases immune memory may help treat m...
An experimental vaccine that erases the immune system’s memory of a molecule could be used to stop a...
After 1 year in space, what's next for an astronau...
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio spoke from the International Space Station on Sept. 19 just ahead of his ...
The entire brain may be involved in language, not ...
Brain regions identified as “language centres” are actually hubs that coordinate the processing of l...
Japan's SLIM moon lander completes 1st critical ph...
Japan's SLIM moon lander has passed a first critical operation period in Earth orbit, meaning its so...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be o...
DARPA wants new ideas for space weapons
The U.S. Department of Defense wants fresh ideas on how to maintain military superiority in space.
