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…

Starship: When will SpaceX’s next ‘chopstick’ test flight go ahead?

SpaceX’s Starship rocket before its first test flight in 2023 SpaceX SpaceX has had a Starship…

Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Canary Islands on 30 September CARLOS DE SAA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…

Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 visible at centre left NASA The…

Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Samples from asteroid Ryugu JAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet made from bacteria…

A dramatic return from space in Kazakhstan

You could be forgiven for thinking that this dramatic image is a still from a forthcoming…