Physics
How does astronomy fit into astrophysics 鈥� and does it matter?
We need to think more carefully about how we categorise the universe, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Space
Distant exoplanet may be the most volcanic world ever found
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Space
How meteorites are rewriting the history of the solar system
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Space
Astronomers have spotted the largest known object in the universe
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The best new science fiction books of February 2025
Culture
Space
These interstellar spaceship designs are wildly impractical
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Space
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory gets started next year. I can’t wait
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Space
The best space images from 2024
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Space
Exoplanet plate tectonics: A new frontier in the hunt for alien life
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Having a baby on Mars? You may be in for a difficult time
Kelly Weinersmith, co-author of A City on Mars, the latest pick for our New Scientist Book Club, and Cat Bohannon lay out the reasons why it might not be such a great idea to be pregnant on another planet
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Space
This bold, experimental slice of deep-space sci-fi is just brilliant
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Technology
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
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Space
Orbital wins the Booker prize: 鈥淚 see it as a kind of space pastoral”
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Space
What preparing for an asteroid strike teaches us about climate change
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