Earth may be partly made of rocks from elsewhere in the galaxy
14 March 2019
We’ve only seen one interstellar object, a rock called ‘Oumuamua that passed by in 2017, but they may be crucial to speeding up the planet-building process
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A Place That Exists Only in Moonlight review: Sublime raid on infinity
13 February 2019
Katie Paterson's biggest art show yet gives gallery-goers a tantalising taste of space and time at a cosmic scale
This stunning map shows why everyone is fighting over the Arctic
30 January 2019
The environmentally damaging melting of polar ice is also exposing minerals, archaeological wonders and even ice volcanoes and there's a race to get to them
10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed
18 January 2019
The last 10 years have seen amazing advances in science and technology – and stark damage to the world we live in. Like a lot of people on social media we thought we'd take a look back at the last ten years in science and New Scientist
NASA probe will hurtle past the most distant object we’ve ever visited
22 December 2018
In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft whizzed past Pluto. Now it is about to arrive at Ultima Thule, a tiny space rock 6.6 billion kilometres away from Earth
2018’s weirdest stories: Friendly horses, toddler robots and moonmoons
20 December 2018
New Scientist has covered some strange scientific findings this year. Here is our round-up of the weirdest and wackiest
Palaeontologists behaving badly, and other bitter feuds in science
18 December 2018
What killed the dinosaurs? Does string theory count as science? Is Pluto a planet? Get embroiled in five explosive debates that have put researchers at each others' throats
A new dwarf planet called Farout is the most distant we’ve ever seen
17 December 2018
Astronomers have spotted a tiny world 18 billion kilometres away, the most distant dwarf planet we’ve ever seen, and it may help us find the elusive Planet X
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
21 November 2018
After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system
Super-Earth spotted hiding in plain sight around neighbouring star
14 November 2018
After years of searching, a planet several times larger than Earth has been discovered orbiting Barnard’s star – the closest star to Earth after the Alpha Centauri system
