Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is a prime target in the hunt for life elsewhere in…
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NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time
NASA gave the Didymos system a nudge Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s…
Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it
Were these the first people to reach space? Heritage Image Partnership Ltd /Alamy If you were…
New simulations reveal what happened at the beginning of the universe
Astrophysicist Katy Clough uses supercomputers to simulate conditions at the start of the universe and other…
Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?
Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be? | New Scientist…
A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one
Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin), Bhavesh Khamesra (Georgia Tech), and Karan Jani (Vanderbilt University)/LIGO Space-time is being…
A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist
DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported…
The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe
If you imagine the story of the universe as a film endlessly in post-production, cosmologists would…
NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover
NASA’s Space Launch System has had a tricky start NASA/Cory Huston NASA is shaking up the…
Amazing sneak peek of NASA’s spacesuit tests as moon mission nears
Astronauts practise tasks in a simulated moon environment NASA Preparing to send people back to the…