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Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NAS...
Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a crew...
The Pelican Nebula shines near the Las Vegas Strip...
The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, the swan.
Gladys West, GPS pioneer and one of NASA's famed '...
West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an est...
See the full 'Snow Moon' chill in the eastern sky ...
The 'Snow Moon' is named for the inclement weather that is common in January.
The best new popular science books of February 202...
Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles ...
Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NAS...
Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a c...
Chinese space tourism startup eyes 2028 for 1st cr...
InterstellOr is already taking bookings for its planned suborbital flights and says it has attracted...
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 195 — Remember...
On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apoll...
Space.com headlines crossword quiz for week of Jan...
Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlin...
From a new flagship space telescope to lunar explo...
Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the antici...
From 'Asteroids' to 'Star Citizen': A brief histor...
How space dogfighting games evolved from vector lines to virtual cockpits.
What actually happens to a spacecraft during its f...
What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the...
Peak Design 25L Outdoor Backpack review
The Peak Design 25L Outdoor Backpack provides versatility and quality for a variety of outdoor uses....
NASA's Artemis 2 mission to the moon puts Crew-12 ...
SpaceX launch date of Crew-12 astronauts to the International Space Station will depend on the outco...
Blue Origin pausing space tourism flights for at l...
Blue Origin will ground its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for at least two years, in order to devot...
Russian 'inspector' satellite appears to break apa...
Ground-based observations suggest the former geostationary inspector satellite suffered a fragmentat...
Large Hadron Collider reveals 'primordial soup' of...
Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have fou...
1.1 million mph cosmic winds race through 'magneti...
Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dra...
Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: Moo...
Friday, Jan. 30, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a cre...
Can we genetically improve humans using George Chu...
Columnist Michael Le Page delves into a catalogue of hundreds of potentially beneficial gene mutatio...
Living spaceships, plague planets, and a quote fro...
Read an excerpt of this deep-space mystery from the prolific writer of 'Whalefall' and 'Angel Down.'...
NASA delays critical Artemis 2 rocket fueling test...
NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually...
Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain dama...
Some people don’t develop dementia despite showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brain, and ...
See the moon glow next to mighty Jupiter in the wi...
The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1.
Is a MacBook or Windows laptop better for astropho...
Both Windows and MacBooks have advantages for astrophotography, but the choice will depend on your p...
Elon Musk is making a big bet on his future vision...
Reports suggest that Elon Musk is eyeing up a merger involving SpaceX, Tesla and xAI, but what does ...
Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid i...
Yawning and deep breathing each have different effects on the movement of fluids in the brain, and e...
The best new science fiction books of February 202...
We pick the sci-fi novels we’re most looking forward to reading this month, from a new Brandon Sande...
Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbles apart in stunning...
The comet broke into pieces after making a close approach around the sun in October 2025.
How an 1800s vaccine drive beat smallpox in Denmar...
In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all ...
From space to the seabed, critical infrastructure ...
"We are on Day 1. A lot more needs to be done."
Our verdict on Annie Bot: This novel about a sex r...
Members of the New Scientist Book Club give their take on Sierra Greer's award-winning science-ficti...
Read an extract from Juice by Tim Winton
In this extract from the February read for the New Scientist Book Club, we meet the protagonist of T...
Tim Winton: 'Sometimes I think we use the word dys...
The New Scientist Book Club's February read is Tim Winton's novel Juice, set in a future Australia t...
This doctor is on the hunt for people with first-r...
Elizabeth Hohmann is very interested in faeces, and spends her days sifting through stools to find t...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from two coast...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 25 Starlink satellites lifted off from California on Jan. 29, 2026...
AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggr...
Interval cancers are aggressive tumours that grow during the interval after someone has been screene...
Astronomers watch 1st black hole ever imaged launc...
"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations...
Artemis 2 SLS wet dress rehearsal latest news: NAS...
Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026: Follow NASA's last major test of SLS before the launch of Artemis 2 and a c...
Watch Rocket Lab launch Korean disaster-monitoring...
Rocket Lab will try again tonight (Jan. 29) to launch a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite, ...
New 'Starfleet Academy' episode 'Vox in Excelso' s...
Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think again…
US government declassifies Cold War-era 'JUMPSEAT'...
The National Reconnaissance Office just revealed the existence of its "JUMPSEAT" line of spy satelli...
Our lifespans may be half down to genes and half t...
A reanalysis of twin data from Denmark and Sweden suggests that how long we live now depends roughly...
NASA's Juno spacecraft spots the largest volcanic ...
"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multi...
NASA's Artemis 2 crewed mission to the moon shows ...
The United States is no longer competing against a single rival in a largely symbolic race.
This trio of 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' cadets...
"It's like when you watch 'The Lord of the Rings.' It feels like it's drawing from such a deep well ...
Polar bears are getting fatter in the fastest-warm...
Shrinking sea ice has made life harder for polar bears in many parts of the Arctic, but the populati...
Jupiter's moon Europa has an ice shell about 18 mi...
Using data gathered by NASA's Juno Jupiter orbiter, scientists estimate that Europa's ice shell is a...
Best Lego NASA sets 2026: Build NASA's finest from...
We've rounded up the best Lego NASA sets to suit a range of budgets and ages.
