Science
Space hurricanes are real — and they wreak more ha...
Space hurricanes can shake Earth's magnetic field and scramble satellites without a solar storm in s...
'Universal' detector spots AI deepfake videos with...
A new detection tool can accurately spot deepfake videos featuring any AI manipulation, from face sw...
Watch Rocket Lab launch private Japanese radar sat...
Rocket Lab will launch its fifth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS tonight (Aug. 4...
Mysterious boost to Earth's spin will make Aug. 5 ...
A strange shift in Earth's rotation is making our days milliseconds shorter — and scientists are rac...
SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florid...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday mor...
Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could delive...
Space weather imposes threats on everything from electrical grids to GPS navigation.
‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new...
With more countries looking to explore space, there is a rising hope that space is now more accessib...
See the moon shine alongside red supergiant star A...
The red supergiant star Antares will appear close to the waxing gibbous moon tonight.
Watch Blue Origin launch crypto billionaire Justin...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform T...
Scientists scan famous 'Earthrise' crater on missi...
A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spa...
August Moon: Here's what to look for during all 4 ...
Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four...
Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a me...
The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is well preserved, making it a hotspot for space research.
'Lexx' appeal: A deeply underrated sci-fi classic ...
A band of misfits aboard a stolen planet-killing starship, the wild, weird Lexx is the best 90s sci-...
Watch SpaceX's Crew-11 astronauts arrive at the IS...
The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission will arrive at the International Space Station aroun...
Rookie crewmates kept things fresh for Ax-4 astron...
Ax-4 commander Peggy Whitson just extended her American duration record on the International Space S...
Could we get quantum spookiness even without entan...
Particles of light travelling through a maze of devices seem to have passed a famous test for entang...
SpaceX just launched disease-causing bacteria to t...
SpaceX just launched the Crew-11 astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA — along with...
The way we train AIs makes them more likely to spo...
The tendency for AIs to give misleading answers may be in part down to certain training techniques, ...
Satellites are helping protect critically endanger...
GPS tracking and high-resolution satellite images are helping humans coexist with endangered elephan...
Best camera for astro now $300 cheaper: This Nikon...
The Nikon Z8 was rated as our best overall camera for astrophotography, and is $600 off on Amazon, p...
SpaceX launches Crew-11 astronauts to the ISS for ...
SpaceX launched the Crew-11 on Aug. 1, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on...
DNA analysis reveals what really killed Napoleon's...
At least 300,000 men died during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia - now the latest genetic techniques ...
New discovery at CERN could hint at why our univer...
A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates ...
Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double bla...
A beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that th...
Astronaut savors the moment and shares a stunning ...
The four Expedition 73 members on SpaceX's Crew-10 mission prepared to come home, while also got the...
Big lake in Quebec suddenly disappears, satellite ...
The lake was completely drained in the spring of 2025.
Stunning 'sun dogs' could sparkle in alien skies, ...
High-speed winds on exoplanet WASP-17b may align quartz crystals in its atmosphere and create dazzli...
SpaceX fires up Starship spacecraft ahead of 10th ...
SpaceX performed a single-engine "static fire" trial with its newest Starship spacecraft on Thursday...
Cameras that work like our eyes could give boost t...
Neuromorphic cameras, which only record data when a pixel's brightness changes, may be advantageous ...
Did 'primordial' black holes born right after the ...
New research suggests that primordial black holes could have played an important role in the formati...
Our verdict on Lake of Darkness by Adam Roberts: A...
The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Adam Roberts's novel Lake of Darkness. Some of...
What would it feel like to be on a planet spinning...
Alex Foster, the author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, Circular Motion, on imag...
Read an extract from Alex Foster’s sci-fi novel Ci...
In this passage from the opening of Circular Motion, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club...
Ozempic really could turn back the clock on your b...
When people were randomised to receive either a placebo or Ozempic, they became biologically younger...
Kamchatka earthquake response shows tsunami warnin...
After an 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula, early tsunami warni...
Einstein was wrong (slightly) about quantum physic...
A new version of the famous double-slit experiment showed that it's impossible to measure light as b...
Vagus nerve stimulation receives US approval to tr...
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill-sized device for treating rheumatoid arthrit...
Is life widespread throughout the cosmos? Complex ...
Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it ...
Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown i...
The discovery that brain ageing may be driven by jammed-up protein factories could lead to better wa...
E. coli genome has been remade with 101,000 change...
The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for...
SpaceX launches 19 Starlink satellites from Califo...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 19 Starlink satellites from California's central coast today (July...
US says CO2 emissions aren’t harmful – climate sci...
The Trump administration is attempting to argue that greenhouses gases don’t endanger people to reve...
Satellites reveal a hidden lake burst through Gree...
A hidden lake beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet unexpectedly drained more than a decade ago, fracturin...
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will launch next space tou...
Blue Origin is targeting Sunday (Aug. 3) for the launch of its next suborbital tourism mission, whic...
SpaceX, NASA scrub Crew-11 astronaut launch due to...
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of its Crew-11 astronaut mission for NASA just a minute before liftoff to...
Mystery of the potato's origins solved by genetics...
Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant ...
Common artificial sweetener may interfere with can...
People who consume some artificial sweeteners are less likely to respond to certain cancer therapies...
Venus reaches its highest point in the eastern pre...
Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1.
Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details t...
The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait...
Longest lightning ‘mega-flash’ sets a shocking new...
A stroke of lighting that lasted more than 7 seconds and flashed across 829 kilometres is officially...
