O ne of Earth’s seven quasi-moons has just got a new name: Asteroid 2004 GU9 is now known as Cardea, one of the Roman deities of doors and thresholds with a particular focus on hinges.

E lectromagnetic chorus waves once thought to only exist close to the Earth have been found at a distance of 165,000 ...

john a. powell explains why we distance ourselves from groups of people and how we can all find the connection that we crave.

Dante’s Divine Comedy, a ‘biography’ of the Italian poet’s masterpiece by Joseph Luzzi, brims with facts but lacks any starry-eyed wonder ...

"In a fraction of a day all vestiges of civilization are gone, and the great cities — Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, New York — are nothing but legends. Barely a stone is left where ...

Reed Richards seeks help from the Black Knight to understand magic and find Doctor Doom in this preview of Fantastic Four #28 ...

James Dyke writes a regular environmental column for i. He is an Associate Professor in Earth System Science at Exeter University. His book Fire, Storm and Flood: the Violence of Climate Change is out ...

A book that was classified by the CIA for more than 50 years contains a shocking theory about how the world will end. It ...

Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

The author of the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club on the science that lies behind his novel Alien Clay, set on a ...

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our ...