A priest who knows the new pope described him as "down to earth" and said he had once preached about Susan Boyle's appearance ...

It sounds like a mission worthy of a sci-fi movie, but a secretive government agency really is planning to dim the sun.

A new study reveals that uneven land subsidence could impact 29,000 buildings across the America's most populated ...

May’s full moon will light up the night sky on Monday, May 12, offering a bright reminder that spring is in full swing.

Coming up with a final federal budget always involves arm twisting and other negotiating tactics as everyone lobbies for their priorities, so the initial budget proposal released by the White House in ...

Mercury, our planet of the mind and mouth, is leaving the hyper-expressive, never subtle, fight or flight fires of Aries this ...

Following on from our first list, we asked New Scientist staff to pick even more of their favourite sci-fi books of all time.

The presentations were made by Noah Petro and Barbara Cohen, NASA’s Artemis III and IV mission science leads from the Goddard ...

Currently, weather satellites can be used to track wildfire growth, but not until a fire becomes very large and intense. FireSats have the bandwidth to detect a low intensity fire that's about the ...

A bright Moon dominates the sky, passing two bright stars as Juno reaches opposition and Mercury dips toward the horizon in ...

You have to be living under a rock if you have never heard about Netflix's German sci-fi show Dark, which debuted in 2017 and ran for three seasons. Hailed as the most mind-bending show ever made, ...

A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are ...