Read Issue #3619 28 October 2026 of New Scientist magazine for the latest news from across the world of science, plus long ...

A rocky planet exposed to extreme heat from its star appears to reflect nearly three-quarters of the starlight that reaches ...

A scorching lava planet 280 light-years away has surprised astronomers by apparently maintaining a thick atmosphere despite ...

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PlanetiQ is expanding its GNSS-RO data collection with back-to-back rideshare launches in October, as CEO Ira Scharf says there is growing demand for this ...

Looking at future priorities, the president emphasized the value of the opportunities offered by the Simplified Logistics Zone and the need to complete the port's connections with national and ...

Cambridge University study suggests stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment Women with autoimmune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told ...

In a cosmic first, scientists say they have detected a planet that may have formed from the burned remains of its dead host star. When a sunlike star dies, it first rapidly expands into a red giant ...

A dead star’s wreckage may be the birthplace of a new planet. The existence of second-generation planets was predicted theoretically more than 15 years ago. But this “phoenix” world, if confirmed, ...

NASA and its Mission to Planet Earth program received praise and support in two May 16 Senate hearings. An authorization hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space ...

Astronomers have confirmed a world less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using data from archives. Called Elias 2-24 b, the baby planet is still whirling in its natal disk of ...

Everyone gets wrinkles eventually—even planets. On Mercury, these signs of aging look like hills and ridges, called shortening structures, across its surface. As the planet shrinks and contracts over ...