How to spot the 2023 Perseid meteor shower wherever you are

The Perseids are a major meteor shower – here is your guide to spotting them in…

Two-faced star seems to have one hydrogen side and one helium side

A strange star more than 1300 light years away appears to have two sides with completely…

Distant planet may be the first known to share its orbit with another

Exoplanet PDS 70b, a gas giant seven times the mass of Jupiter, appears to share an…

Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos

To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, Dead Planets Society, New Scientist editors have selected…

Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead…

JWST may have spotted enormous stars powered by dark matter

The early universe could be home to huge stars powered by dark matter annihilation instead of…

India's Chandrayaan-3 launches to explore moon's water-rich south pole

India has launched its Chandrayaan-3 mission, which aims to explore the south pole of the moon…

Stars found hidden in huge cloud wrapped around the Milky Way

The Magellanic stream is a cloud of dust and gas that wraps around our galaxy. It…

'Superbubbles' of gas around quasars may form thanks to powerful winds

Colossal bubbles of hot gas observed around three distant, supermassive black holes are probably the result…

JWST celebrates first year of science with awesome star-forming image

After a year of producing incredible imagery, the James Webb Space Telescope team has released a…