Sky Peals review: Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity

Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not of this world Lisa Stonehouse/Escape Films Sky PealsMoin HussainA BFI Player…

New Scientist recommends Brian Cox’s new series, Solar System

I have to confess, I struggle to watch science documentaries these days – I prefer a…

What does it mean to “look” at a black hole?

A simulation of a black hole Hotaka Shiokawa/EHT General relativity teaches us that reality is, in…

The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

Congratulations, it’s twins K. Miller, R. Hurt/Caltech/IPAC An odd star that has confused researchers for decades…

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope’s map of the universe

The interaction between two distant galaxies, captured by Euclid ESA A mosaic of images from the…

Meet NEO Surveyor, NASA’s near-Earth asteroid detector

NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory…

Now is a great time to see Saturn in all its ringed glory

The planet Saturn photographed with an amateur telescope Grey Zone / Alamy Stock Photo When I…

NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability

Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an…

NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of life

Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an…

New Scientist recommends HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London

HowTheLightGetsIn festival Matt Eachus I recently visited a festival of philosophy and music, HowTheLightGetsIn, on London’s…