NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of habitability

Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an…

NASA set to launch Europa Clipper probe to search for signs of life

Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft NASA/JPL-Caltech The largest spacecraft ever created by NASA for an…

New Scientist recommends HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London

HowTheLightGetsIn festival Matt Eachus I recently visited a festival of philosophy and music, HowTheLightGetsIn, on London’s…

Starship: When will SpaceX’s next ‘chopstick’ test flight go ahead?

SpaceX’s Starship rocket before its first test flight in 2023 SpaceX SpaceX has had a Starship…

Earth may be about to pass through the ion tail of a comet

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as seen from the Canary Islands on 30 September CARLOS DE SAA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…

Space may be filled with more antimatter than we can explain

The International Space Station with the particle-detecting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 visible at centre left NASA The…

Astronauts could one day end up eating asteroids

Samples from asteroid Ryugu JAXA Future astronauts could eat a nutritionally perfect diet made from bacteria…

A dramatic return from space in Kazakhstan

You could be forgiven for thinking that this dramatic image is a still from a forthcoming…

New Scientist recommends astronomy exhibition Borrowed Light in Berlin

My recent visit to Berlin for a planetary science conference coincided with Berlin Art Week. The…

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid Didymos after NASA’s DART redirection test

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will study the asteroids Dimorphos aided by two CubeSats called…