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
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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
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
Pluto’s weird ridges may be glacial landforms unlike any on Earth
12 November 2018
Next to Pluto’s heart-shaped plains are strange rolling hills unlike anything we’ve seen on Earth, and they may be left over from receding ancient glaciers
The Kepler spacecraft is dead but its planet-hunting legacy lives on
7 November 2018
On 30 October, NASA announced that the Kepler planet-hunting spacecraft is being shut down. Over almost a decade, it changed our views on our place in the universe
Distant dwarf planet called 'The Goblin' could point to Planet X
2 October 2018
There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X
Cosmic cooperation is just what space exploration needs
30 May 2018
Questions such as whether Mars ever hosted life are too big to be left to any one nation – efforts to join forces on space missions are the future
Dwarf planet Ceres has a water cycle but it’s not like Earth’s
14 March 2018
Ceres, a distant dwarf planet, hosts sheets of ice just under its surface. In the summer, some of this ice may sublimate and coat shadowy crater walls in frost
Hidden exoplanets could be revealed by echoing light
11 January 2018
Reflected light from a star’s flares may help us find otherwise invisible worlds. These exoplanets could be hit by powerful blasts, but may still host life
We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world
16 November 2017
We've just sent a message to a nearby star to see if there's any life there - and we'll only have to wait 25 years for a reply
