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19 March 2015

All the latest on newscientist.com: the robot with a self, cool electric cars, recruitment by video game, solar eclipse guide, NHS game-changers, and more

Ultimate solar system could contain 60 Earths

30 May 2014

The laws of physics potentially allow one binary star system to contain a surprisingly large number of Earth-like planets, assuming there is enough matter to form the worlds

Dwarf seahorses are stealth hunters of the oceans

26 November 2013

At just 2.5 centimetres long, one of the slowest moving animals in the oceans has a special trick for snapping up some of the fastest

Review: The Hunt for Planet X by Govert Schilling

28 January 2009

A wonderfully entertaining book which conveys the raw excitement of the hunt for new planets

Review: The Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson

21 January 2009

A highly entertaining history of Pluto with an emphasis on its place in culture, especially in the US, where it has been called a "true-blue American planet"

Engage the antimatter drive

5 September 2007

Fancy a trip to another solar system? You will need a pretty revolutionary kind of rocket to get there...

Forum: A plague of planets - Ken Croswell wishes astronomers would stop crying wolf

24 May 1991

Forum: What's so special about the centre? - It is time for a little post-Copernican thinking

16 February 1991