NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter, the predecessor to Chopper NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA is working on plans to send…

Complex form of carbon spotted outside solar system for first time

Compounds called pyrenes have been detected in the Taurus molecular cloud ESO A complex form of…

A supernova may have cleaned up our solar system

When a star goes supernova in a giant explosion, it can clear away nearby matter muratart/Shutterstock…

Sky Peals review: Understated sci-fi drama traverses themes of immigration and identity

Umer (Faraz Ayub) wonders if he is not of this world Lisa Stonehouse/Escape Films Sky PealsMoin HussainA BFI Player…

New Scientist recommends Brian Cox’s new series, Solar System

I have to confess, I struggle to watch science documentaries these days – I prefer a…

What does it mean to “look” at a black hole?

A simulation of a black hole Hotaka Shiokawa/EHT General relativity teaches us that reality is, in…

The first brown dwarf ever found was the strangest – now we know why

Congratulations, it’s twins K. Miller, R. Hurt/Caltech/IPAC An odd star that has confused researchers for decades…

First breathtaking images from Euclid telescope’s map of the universe

The interaction between two distant galaxies, captured by Euclid ESA A mosaic of images from the…

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…