A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star –…
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Inside NASA’s ambitious plan to bring the ISS crashing back to Earth
dpa picture alliance archive/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS), as well as being the most expensive…
Five of the most important International Space Station experiments
It’s not all eating bits of food floating in mid-air and introducing suction toilets to fascinated…
Could we take the entire solar system on a voyage through space?
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the…
Banana-shaped galaxies are helping unpeel the mysteries of dark matter
Astronomers have been spotting strange banana-shaped galaxies and the evidence seems to indicate that filaments of…
Get ready to watch the dazzling Perseid meteor shower in August
One of the highlights of the astronomical calendar, and something I look forward to every year,…
Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club
Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best…
Black holes may inherit their magnetic fields from neutron stars
Short-lived neutron stars may explain both the extreme magnetic fields of black holes and gamma ray…
Water molecules found in lunar rock sample for the first time
Although previous studies have found hydrogen and oxygen in moon minerals – implying the presence of…
Galaxy cluster smash-up lets us observe dark matter on its own
When galaxy clusters collided, the dark matter (blue) sailed ahead of the normal matter (orange) W.M.…