SpaceX wants to launch many more satellites Charles Boyer / Alamy Stock Photo Astronomers are scrambling…
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Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, with the giant planet behind it in a view from the Cassini-Huygens…
We’ve spotted the strongest microwave laser in the known universe
This image combines views from the Hubble and Keck II telescopes. A galaxy in the foreground,…
Artists gaze into space in stunning new exhibition
Royal West of England Academy Both artists and astronomers are, in a way, translators. They convert…
Search for radio signals finds no hint of alien civilisation on K2-18b
Illustration of the exoplanet K2-18b NASA The planet K2-18b, which drew intense speculation last year due…
Spruce trees stumped (sigh) when it comes to predicting eclipses
Feedback is New Scientist’s popular sideways look at the latest science and technology news. You can…
Is our galaxy’s black hole actually made of dark matter?
An image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarised light, captured by the Event…
Scientists want to put a super laser on the moon
Illustration of dark craters near the moon’s south pole Science Photo Library / Alamy Scientists want…
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the…
Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
The Carina Nebula viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope NASA/ESA/M. Livio, The Hubble Heritage Team &…