Land ho: NASA spacecraft may have seen polar ice cap on Pluto
30 April 2015
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is 98 per cent of the way to Pluto, and it's getting better pictures than Hubble
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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…
Today on New Scientist
17 April 2015
All the latest from newscientist.com: how colour vision made us human, Ceres glows in the sunlight, dogs bonding with humans, and more
North pole of spinning dwarf planet Ceres glows in the sunlight
17 April 2015
The first high-resolution images of a dwarf planet have captured the sun-lit north pole of Ceres
Today on New Scientist
13 April 2015
All the latest from newscientist.com: mystery spots on Ceres, cybercrime wave is coming, jumping pink dolphin, genetics and the power of placebo, and more
Two mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres are not alike
13 April 2015
The bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres continue to baffle scientists as infrared images reveal they have different thermal properties
The moon's got two tails – and its friends might too
31 March 2015
The man in the moon wears a tailcoat. The discovery of a second stream of particles from the moon's dark side suggests a way to probe alien worlds from afar
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30 March 2015
All the latest from newscientist.com: Anglo-Saxon remedy for MRSA, how war reshapes the Earth, giant pandas' secret social life, big-brained babies, and more
Today on New Scientist
25 March 2015
All the latest on newscientist.com: Abel prize winner, turbo termites threat to Florida, how to fix the LHC, why did the Germanwings jet crash, and more
Dwarf planet Ceres might have right stuff for life
25 March 2015
NASA hopes Dawn mission can answer the big question: could life lurk in icy volcanoes on Ceres, the asteroid belt's biggest resident?
