NASA’s Perseverance rover is on the hunt for gems NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS The Perseverance rover has found precious…
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3I/ATLAS: Interstellar comet has water unlike any in our solar system
3I/ATLAS is pretty strange International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon…
The asteroid Ryugu has all of the main ingredients for life
Ryugu is an asteroid that sometimes passes close to Earth JAXA All five of the main…
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…