New Scientist Space - Cosmology
Euclid space telescope captures 26 million galaxies in first data drop
The European Space Agency has released the first batch of large-scale images from the Euclid space telescope, which astronomers have already used to find hundreds of strong gravitational lenses
Categories: Astronomy
The world's climate is in uncharted territory, warns major report
A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from CO2 levels and temperature to sea ice loss and sea level rise
Categories: Astronomy
Weird meteorite may be relic of lost planet that no longer exists
A meteorite discovered in north-west Africa in 2023 didn’t come from a large asteroid or any of the known planets of the solar system – but it might have formed on a planet that was destroyed long ago
Categories: Astronomy
Will we soon be able to charge electric cars in minutes?
Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an electric car’s range, but will they be widely used?
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Ultra-fast chargers can refill electric car batteries in minutes
Speedy new chargers from Chinese automaker BYD take just 5 minutes to restore 400 kilometres of an electric car’s range
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Best ever map of early universe is double-edged sword for cosmologists
The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded precise confirmation of the age of the cosmos and its rate of expansion. But for some scientists, the findings offer a frustrating lack of clues to major cosmological mysteries
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Psychology is revealing how to have a better relationship with money
Money is a deeply emotive subject, our attitudes to it vary wildly and we are reluctant to bring it up in conversation. Could new research help us to be less weird about it?
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New evidence microbes played a role in mysterious markings on Mars
There are a couple potential explanations for distinctive markings found on a Martian rock, but new evidence suggests they are most likely to be related to microbial activity
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Dust devils on Mars produce lightning-like zaps of electricity
NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded unusual sounds as a Martian dust devil passed directly over the robotic vehicle in 2021, and we now know they came from electrical activity in the storm
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Surprising skeletons prompt a radical rethink of Egyptian pyramids
For years, Egyptologists have assumed pyramid tombs were just for the rich – but the burials at a site called Tombos don’t fit this pattern
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Have we vastly underestimated the total number of people on Earth?
A new way of estimating rural populations has found that we may be undercounting people who live in these areas, potentially inflating the global population beyond the official count of 8.2 billion – but not everyone agrees
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Most quakes on Mars happen during the summer – and we don’t know why
NASA’s InSight lander recorded surprisingly large quakes that indicate Mars is more seismically active than we first thought. Mysteriously, they only happen during Martian summers
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LHC finds intriguing new clues about our universe's antimatter mystery
Analysing the aftermath of particle collisions has revealed two new instances of “CP violation”, a process that explains why our universe contains more matter than antimatter
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What the extraordinary medical know-how of wild animals can teach us
Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can find new treatments for ourselves
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Rolling boulders on Titan could threaten NASA's Dragonfly mission
The wind on Saturn's largest moon is strong enough to blow around rocks of up to half a metre in diameter, which could put NASA's upcoming Dragonfly mission at risk
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How a start-up plans to mine the moon for a rare form of helium
A private moon mission planned for 2027 will be the first step towards commercial lunar mining of rare and expensive helium-3
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Gravity may arise from quantumness of space
Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely – and shows how it could be tested in experiments
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Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang
The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way
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What makes a good day a good day, according to science
Surveys that ask thousands of people how they spend their time have revealed some surprising activities that seem to make any given day a good one
Categories: Astronomy
The surprising new idea behind what sparked life on Earth
We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets
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