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Moonlighting engineers design alternative NASA rocketIn their spare time, a group of engineers is developing an alternative to NASA's Ares rockets - they want an independent review of their concept
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Stellar nursery found around Milky Way's black hole
Signs of young stars have been found in a ring of gas surrounding the violent centre of the Milky WayBreaking News - 23 July 2008Rocket planes to ship for first demo race
A company hopes to showcase two "rocket racers" flying head-to-head, but problems with flight permits could yet make it a one-plane demoBreaking News - 23 July 2008Moonlighting engineers design alternative NASA rocket
In their spare time, a group of engineers is developing an alternative to NASA's Ares rockets – they want an independent review of their conceptBreaking News - 21 July 2008Worm pincers may inspire better spacecraft materials
An ugly marine worm with a super-strong jaw could provide a simple way to tailor-make the strength of polymersBreaking News - 21 July 2008Satellite cutbacks could leave us blind at the poles
If current climate satellites fail, slashed funding will mean the next generation of instruments may not be launched in timeNews - 16 July 2008Awaiting a messenger from the multiverse
If we switch everything off and wait quietly, a very important particle might come out to play. Stephen Battersby is on tenterhooksFeatures - 21 July 2008Asteroid switched Mars's magnetic field on and off
The gravitational tug of an orbiting asteroid could have triggered a dynamo inside Mars that powered its temporary magnetic fieldNews - 19 July 2008Panel finds misconduct by bubble fusion researcher
A Purdue University committee says the scientist who claimed to have triggered 'bubble fusion' in 2002 is guilty of research misconductBreaking News - 18 July 2008Are we living in a giant cosmic void?
Several of us at New Scientist recently came across an interesting paper by Timothy Clifton and colleagues at the University of Oxford entitled "Living in a Void: Testing the Copernican Principle with distant supernovae".The paper argues that if we are...Blog - 18 July 2008What would Earth look like to alien astronomers?
If they had super-powerful telescopes, it might look like what the Deep Impact probe recently saw from its vantage point 50 million km awayBreaking News - 18 July 2008
