A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a ...

There was unusual consensus amongst New Scientist Book Club members about our read for July, with readers falling over ...

First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a ...

Laser-scanning surveys reveal that the ancient Aquiry civilisation was bigger than previously thought, building tens of ...

NASA researcher Heidi Becker has photographed sublime sights around Jupiter that have never been seen before, from its ...

Nysa was first spotted more than 150 years ago, but only now are we finally figuring out its weird shape and mysterious ...

The moon is about 384,400 kilometres from Earth right now and our days are about 24 hours long. The moon pulls on Earth’s ...

Measures like bans on advertising junk food to children are essential for instilling healthy eating at a young age, but we ...

The remains of an orca-sized ichthyosaur include evidence of what it ate – before it too got eaten by an even bigger marine ...

For years, NASA has woken its space-bound astronauts with playlists chosen from classics of the time. The musical line-up was ...

Cremona’s book is a guide to the different types of plankton found along the British coast, such as the larva of a Magelona ...

Steven Benner’s Meet The Neighbors is an intriguing tale of misunderstood planetary biochemistry. Paul Marks is engrossed ...