Illustration of dark craters near the moon’s south pole Science Photo Library / Alamy Scientists want…
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New Scientist – Space
We’ve glimpsed before the big bang and it’s not what we expected
Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the…
Can we ever know the shape of the universe?
The Carina Nebula viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope NASA/ESA/M. Livio, The Hubble Heritage Team &…
Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
Artist impression of the planetary system around the star LHS 1903 ESA Astronomers have found a…
Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
Artist’s impression of a black hole collision that produced GW250114 A. Simonnet/Sonoma State University; LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration;…
A Brief History of the Universe (and our place in it) review: A new tour of the cosmos paints a wide picture
No tour of the cosmos is complete without a description of black holes MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO…
Synchronised volcanic eruptions on Io hint at a spongy interior
A volcanic eruption on Io photographed by the Galileo spacecraft NASA/JPL/DLR Five volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon…
Why Elon Musk has misunderstood the point of Star Trek
“Space travel is the setting but not the heart of the Star Trek franchise” … A…
Why did SpaceX just apply to launch 1 million satellites?
A SpaceX satellite launch at Kennedy Space Center, Florida Geopix/Alamy We’re a month into 2026, yet…
A huge cloud of dark matter may be lurking near our solar system
There might be a big clump of dark matter in our galactic neighbourhood Alamy There seems…