The New Scientist Book Club has just finished reading Alex Foster's sci-fi novel “Circular Motion”. We liked it – but there were calls for a bit more science in this slice of science fiction ...

New ALMA observations reveal that the discs where planets form are often slightly warped, challenging long-held assumptions and offering clues about the subtle misalignments seen in our own Solar ...

The Maverick's Rescue team are used to scooping up surfers after they fall from the sky, but this never-been-done Red Bull ...

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The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

NASA may be approaching the discovery of biological life in Mars. The space agency confirmed the DNA signal they received and ...

Dive into the world of gravity and space with this C++ simulation of our solar system using OpenGL. In this video, explore ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers are working on a new generation of tiny bots inspired by creepy ...

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist.

A federal judge rules that EES Coke Battery, a DTE Energy subsidiary, violated the Clean Air Act. The decision comes in a ...