We could use glitter-like iron rods to help Mars support life

Terraforming Mars would make the planet more like Earth and better able to sustain life as…

Critics of the International Space Station are missing the point

The International Space Station (ISS) is reaching the end of its life, with agencies around the…

Strange planets could be forming inside dying stars

A planet orbiting extremely close to a white dwarf may have formed inside its star –…

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…