Space Week: A seven-day tour of the cosmos
18 July 2023
To celebrate the launch of our new podcast, Dead Planets Society, New Scientist editors have selected some of our most delightful premium articles about the solar system and beyond
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How to watch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2020
3 January 2020
The Quadrantid meteor shower has a short peak period that lasts only a few hours, so midnight on 3 January is the best time to view in the UK
Hayabusa 2 lands on distant asteroid and collects another sample
11 July 2019
Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has again successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captures closest ever image of asteroid Bennu
18 June 2019
NASA has captured its closest and most detailed image yet of Bennu, a 78 billion-kilogram asteroid which approaches close to Earth every six years
New Scientist Live: can we defend Earth from asteroids?
17 August 2018
Ian Carnelli leads a team at the European Space Agency dedicated to asteroid defence – come learn about his mission this September at New Scientist Live
