Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

Mars is home to perhaps the greatest mystery of the Solar System: the so-called Martian dichotomy, which has baffled ...

Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours ...

A book that was classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end. It ...

A new study sheds light on how a species of foraminifera, single-celled organisms found in almost all marine habitats, thrives in a dark, oxygen-free environment.

NASA is bringing the high-stakes world of planetary defense to the Sundance Film Festival, highlighting its upcoming documentary, “Planetary Defenders,” during a panel ahead of its spring 2025 ...

The asteroid is estimated to be between 656 and 1,443 feet across, and will pass at 16 times the distance to the moon.

You cannot do business on a dead planet,” the photographer and climate activist Cristina Mittermeier says when asked what she ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...

This article is missing many important facts because it is designed to scare an uninformed public. For example, ("Earth had its hottest year ever in 2024…"). False. Our record keeping does not go back ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

Persistent and incredibly destructive multi-year droughts will continue to advance as Earth’s climate warms, scientists say ...