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What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?
Extra dimensions allow for even more complex shapes Vitalij Chalupnik / Alamy and NASA, ESA, and…
Why a Peruvian mountain is becoming an ‘impossible’ particle detector
Ryan Wills for New Scientist Neutrinos live in a lonely universe. Every second, millions of them…
Mystery ‘whippet’ space explosion is the brightest of its kind
“The Whippet”, as imagined by the New Scientist picture desk NASA/muratart/Shutterstock/Adobe Stock A sudden, mysterious burst…
What is a galaxy? That’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer
The globular cluster NGC 1850 lies inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the…
Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift
NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State…
Children of Strife review: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s new Children of Time novel is brilliant
Now imagine this mantis shrimp in a spacesuit, with a taste for weaponry Shutterstock/Samy Kassem The…
SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
Is there anyone out there? NASA/SDO We may have been missing signals from intelligent aliens because…
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is a prime target in the hunt for life elsewhere in…
NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time
NASA gave the Didymos system a nudge Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s…