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What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 8 launch on ...
SpaceX is poised to launch Flight 8 of its Starship megarocket on Monday (March 3). Here's how to wa...
Read an extract from Michel Nieva’s science fictio...
In this passage from Dengue Boy, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we get an insight ...
Why the northern lights seem more frequent than ev...
You may have noticed that more auroras have been visible in recent years, including from lower latit...
New Scientist Book Club: Why I chose a mosquito as...
Michel Nieva, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Dengue Boy, on his stor...
Private Athena moon lander beams home gorgeous vie...
Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander, named Athena, snapped some amazing shots of its home planet...
NASA must 'consider alternatives' to put Artemis a...
Space policy experts told U.S. Congress that NASA must consider alternatives to its current plan to ...
Private Blue Ghost lunar lander captures stunning ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander has beamed home stunning views of the moon from an altit...
We now know how much global warming has delayed th...
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pa...
We now know how much emissions have delayed the ne...
Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast suggests this ancient pa...
Why the world’s longevity hotspots may not be all ...
Blue Zones, places home to an unusual number of centenarians, are looked to for their secrets to liv...
NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimick...
Astronomers have discovered that billions of comets in an icy shell around the solar system called t...
Belyayev's birthday 'candle': Russia to launch ISS...
Russia is celebrating a late cosmonaut's 100th birthday with a special logo on the launch shroud of ...
Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronau...
There may be logic in keeping spacecraft as sterile as possible, but this could inadvertently be aff...
A man's brain was turned into glass by the eruptio...
A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculaneum resident and the ...
Katy Perry and historic all-female crew will launc...
Perry and a celebrity female crew will launch on Blue Origin's NS-31 mission this spring.
February new moon 2025: The young moon occults Mer...
The moon enters its new phase for February 2025 tonight, leaving the skies nice and dark for observi...
It's Pokémon Day! Here are ten Pokémon from space ...
You'll need NASA's help to catch 'em all: Here are ten Pokemon from space to celebrate Pokemon Day
NASA set to deliver a knock-out PUNCH to mysteries...
A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimens...
SpaceX delays Flight 8 of Starship megarocket to M...
SpaceX has pushed back the eighth test flight of its Starship megarocket by three days, to Monday (M...
How to see every planet in the solar system at onc...
For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be visible in the night...
James Webb Space Telescope joins cosmic detectives...
The James Webb Space Telescope has joined the hunt for dark matter, aiding cosmic detectives in sear...
'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacu...
While experimenting with waves, researchers discovered that vibrating a container of liquid would ca...
NASA launching its SPHEREx and PUNCH space mission...
NASA launching its SPHEREx and PUNCH space missions on March 2 at 10:09 p.m. ET.
SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellite on new Falco...
A new SpaceX rocket launched a pristine batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit late Wednes...
SpaceX rocket launches private moon lander and NAS...
SpaceX launched a double moon mission today (Feb. 26), sending a private lunar lander and a NASA orb...
These dwarf galaxies in the Hydra cluster are baff...
Astronomers were surprised to see the behavior of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies located in the Hydra clu...
NASA leadership shakeup continues as agency settle...
Among other changes, Vanessa Wyche, who previously led Johnson Space Center, has been named NASA's a...
Watch the asteroid that had us all worried zoom ha...
Observations from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope helped show that the expe...
Extreme heat may speed up biological ageing in old...
Spending more days in extreme heat seems to be linked to markers of increased biological ageing in p...
See Mercury at its best in the night sky over the ...
In March 2025 we have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to...
How to think about the most contentious ideas in s...
When faced with real-life controversy over the thorniest of research topics, we can seek guidance fr...
The 1st Australian rocket to launch from Australia...
Australian company Gilmour Space has announced a launch window of no earlier than March 15 for its f...
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st image...
The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and ...
NASA's asteroid-hopping Lucy probe takes 1st image...
The Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids is currently cruising through the Asteroid Belt, and ...
Physicists capture a strange fractal ‘butterfly’ f...
The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern first predicted in 197...
Thread-based computer could be knitted into clothe...
Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monitor large parts of yo...
Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingl...
By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where...
Vital ocean current is unlikely to completely shut...
Climate models predict that even under extreme warming, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...
The research that will help you not suck at digita...
Should that meeting have been an email? Is it ever ok to send a voice note? Andrew Brodsky has studi...
The only good 'Star Wars' prequel trilogy movie is...
The final chapter of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, 'Revenge of the Sith', turns 20 this year, and D...
This Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon set is rarel...
This fantastic Millennium Falcon model looks great displayed alone or as part of a Lego Star Wars co...
