We’ve discovered a planet orbiting an exploded star for the first time
4 December 2019
A giant planet almost as big as Jupiter has been found orbiting a white dwarf, which is the remnants of an exploded star
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A few solutions to the minimoon conundrum (2)
13 November 2019
Could Jupiter ever ignite into a star?
30 October 2019
Jupiter is big enough to be a star, so could it ever become one? The answer lies in knowing how a star forms, as readers explain
Surprisingly round asteroid may actually be the smallest dwarf planet
28 October 2019
The best ever image of the asteroid Hygiea has revealed its shape for the first time and it looks as if it is round enough to be a tiny dwarf planet like Pluto
We could find alien life on exoplanets by looking for its glow
20 August 2019
Most of the closest exoplanets we’ve found orbit stars that can release flares of dangerous UV light, but those very flares might force life to evolve to glow
How do you name a black hole? It is actually pretty complicated
12 April 2019
The first black hole ever directly imaged now has been nicknamed Pōwehi, but making the name official will take some time
You can help name the largest unnamed world in the solar system
9 April 2019
A dwarf planet known only as 2007 OR10 is about to get a proper name after more than a decade - and the public can help decide what we call it
A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar system
4 April 2019
A piece of a planet that survived the death of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. Planets in our solar system may look similar when the sun dies
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
