Journeys of a lifetime: How your bones began in a star's core
11 November 2015
Find out how 13-billion-year-old calcium atoms forged in the stars got to be part of your bones – and how you may one day become stardust again
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Journeys of a lifetime: Events in a far galaxy tweak your DNA
11 November 2015
Billions of years ago, an iron nucleus forged in another galaxy was flung into space at close to the speed of light – headed for your cells
Is food really better from the farm gate than supermarket shelf?
14 October 2015
Some say the way we produce and process food making it less nourishing than in our grandparents' day. New Scientist looks at the facts
5 alien worlds weirder than any we have found so far
16 September 2015
From party planets to egg worlds, astronomers are hunting exoplanets even more bizarre than the ones they have spotted already
Home, sweet exomoon: The new frontier in the search for ET
29 July 2015
We're fixated on the idea that life can only exist on a planet like Earth – but the most likely habitat might lie elsewhere
How New Horizons will probe mysteries of Pluto's oddball moons
10 June 2015
One frozen ammonia world is too large even to be a moon, and no one can work out how four others got there. What's their story?
Dwarf or planet? First visit to Pluto could reignite the row
10 June 2015
How many solar system planets are there: eight, nine? Or 73 or 74? Arguments swirl on nine years after Pluto was struck off the official list
First visit to Pluto could rewrite the solar system's story
10 June 2015
Rivers of neon, geysers of nitrogen, an oddly giant moon: the New Horizons probe promises revealing spectacles – and insights into deep solar system history
Rosetta's wrong water could be right after all
6 May 2015
Comet 67P's water isn't like Earth's – it's interstellar stuff, from the same mould as the pristine material that made the solar system
The human universe: If aliens exist, do they know we're here?
29 April 2015
Extraterrestrials could already be learning about life on Earth. Problem is, it's probably from TV signals transmitted in 1973…
