The surface of Saturn’s moon Titan is mostly coated in a thick layer of sediment, but…
Author: New Scientist - Space
The moon may be made of magma that once covered Earth’s entire surface
The moon’s makeup is extremely similar to Earth’s - perhaps because a huge rock smashed into…
Tomorrow Inc: how Stanley Kubrick designed the future
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition comes to London's Design Museum, and in its wake a renewed fascination…
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 bombed an asteroid and took pictures of the crater
New images captured by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 confirm that the spacecraft successfully blew a hole in…
NASA’s InSight lander on Mars has felt its first marsquakes
Measuring seismic activity on Mars could help us figure out how much water the planet has,…
SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule lost after ‘anomaly’ during ground test
The Crew Dragon capsule is intended to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station, but a…
Satellites are checking if boats in remote places are fishing legally
The Indonesian government is using tiny internet-providing satellites to check if boats in the middle of…
Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS
Cleaning the International Space Station is laborious work, so hygiene firm GermFalcon has made a drone…
Zero-gravity robot cleaner could automatically sterilise the ISS
Cleaning the International Space Station is laborious work, so hygiene firm GermFalcon has made a drone…
An interstellar rock may have hit Earth in 2014 but nobody noticed
In 2017 astronomers spotted the first interstellar object in our solar system, ‘Oumuamua, but our planet…