When we started finding planetary systems around other stars we thought many of them would be…
Category: New Scientist
New Scientist – Space
Hubble takes amazing photos of the Prawn Nebula and a newborn star
When clouds of dust and gas collapse to form new stars, the light show is a…
A pair of nearby supermassive black holes are heading for a collision
Two supermassive black holes have been discovered just 1600 light years apart, and they are likely…
An ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet orbits its star once every 16 hours
The second hottest planet ever found is being pulled into its star faster than any planet…
Mysterious origin of Earth's water may be explained by solar wind
Evidence from asteroids shows that charged particles from the sun can turn dust grains into water…
Merging black holes may create bubbles that could swallow the universe
The area between a pair of large black holes on the verge of colliding could provide…
Now is the perfect time to see dwarf planet Ceres for yourself
The only dwarf planet in the inner solar system, Ceres will be at its closest to…
NASA’s DART mission will try to deflect an asteroid by flying into it
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is scheduled to launch on 24 November and will…
Astronomers have found a second trojan asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit
An Earth trojan is an asteroid that shares our planet’s orbit around the sun, moving just…
13 of the most profound questions about the cosmos and ourselves
Questions that are just as enigmatic now as when we first asked them Click…