New Scientist Space - Space Headlines

Apple has announced a number of measures to protect the privacy of its users, which could hit advertising-supported online services hard and spark a game of "whack-a-mole” as marketers attempt to subvert them

A pair of mysterious, gigantic balls of frozen gas in the Milky Way have left astronomers puzzled, but they could be a sign we don’t fully understand how stars form

Dozens of major websites, including New Scientist, were offline for around an hour on Tuesday morning in a widespread outage linked to a leading internet content delivery service

An arc of galaxies stretching for 3.3 billion light years seems to contradict a core tenet of cosmology, that the universe looks broadly the same everywhere on large scales

A Madagascar hissing cockroach fitted with a “backpack” computer and infrared camera could help search-and-rescue teams locate bodies in the aftermath of an earthquake

Consumers in the US spend more money when grocery shopping online, but spend less on sweets and desserts than when they shop in store

One hundred water voles will be released in the Washburn Valley, UK, where there are plans to extend the mammals’ habitat

The earliest genetic evidence for goat domestication comes fossils of goats that lived in the Zagros Mountains of Iran about 10,000 years ago

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic

Rotifers are small and squishy and do not look resilient, but one individual has endured about 24,000 years frozen in permafrost, and is now thriving

Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Blue Origin, will fly to the edge of space on his company's first crewed flight on 20 July, as will his brother

Skygazers in parts of Europe, Asia and North America can observe part of the sun being obscured by the moon this week, and a few places will see a “ring of fire”

A team including researchers at Google took a cubic millimetre of a woman's brain, sliced it incredibly thin and scanned it to create the most detailed map yet of the connections within our brain

NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it has returned for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission

NASA took pictures of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede with its Galileo and Voyager missions, and now it is returning for the first time in over two decades with the Juno mission

AI taught digital players who start out able to only make random movements how to run, dribble a football, kick it into the goal and work as a team

People who travel to countries with a higher prevalence of antibiotic resistance are unwittingly bringing genes for resistance home in their gut bacteria

When male fruit flies go without food for 24 hours, they get hangry and become aggressive towards other males, lunging at each other and fencing with their legs

Astronomers have found 9 supermassive black holes that may have been hurled out of their homes at the centres of galaxies by dramatic cosmic collisions

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scientist and essential information about the covid-19 pandemic