Rare mid-weight black hole found at heart of bright star cluster

Intermediate-mass black holes – weighing a few hundred to a few thousand solar masses – are…

Sun’s rotation is slowed down by its own photons

The sun's layers slow the escape of photons of sunlight, and when they finally stream away…

Tweet me, I’m about to die in space

Artists Cath Le Couteur and Nick Ryan weigh in on the space junk problem in the…

Tweet me, I’m about to die in space

Artists Cath Le Couteur and Nick Ryan weigh in on the space junk problem in the…

Gravitational wave detector prepares to peer into bizarre stars

It has already made the discovery of the decade – next LIGO aims to model weird…

Gravitational wave detector prepares to peer into bizarre stars

It has already made the discovery of the decade – next LIGO aims to model weird…

How we found them: Inside a giant gravitational wave detector

It took decades of work to prove that gravitational waves are real. New Scientist goes inside…

Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

A JAXA spacecraft designed to clear Earth's neighbourhood of debris with an electrified cable re-entered the…

Space junk collector burns up after hitting snag in first test

A JAXA spacecraft designed to clear Earth's neighbourhood of debris with an electrified cable re-entered the…

Old Scientist: Into the twilight zone of dubious causation

Learn in your sleep! Believe your horoscope! It’s not our fault, the window blew in! New…