New Atlas 20th Anniversary

As New Atlas celebrates it 20th birthday, let's cast an eye over some of the more notable technology fails in recent times, a list featuring ambitious startups and big-names you mightn't expect to put a foot wrong.

The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has taken off over the last few decades. With the recent discovery of the 5,000th exoplanet coinciding with our own 20th anniversary, now is the perfect time to reflect on the milestones along the way.

The emerging eVTOL industry is drawing in enormous investment money on the promise of clean, cheap, quiet electric air taxis – but it all started with a NASA engineer's research project back in 2009. Enjoy a look back at some of our early coverage.

Over the past 20 years we’ve crossed paths with all manner of passionate people blazing their own trails, so we thought this would be a good opportunity to revisit some of the more eccentric characters we’ve been lucky enough to interview in that time.

The moving image is an awesome tool when your mission is to educate the world about emerging technologies. Permit us some self-indulgence as we revisit our very first video, and many others we still find ourselves looking back on fondly as we turn 20.

Inventors and innovators have long been fascinated with the idea of personal flight. So have we, and as it turns out, we couldn't have picked a better time in history to cover it.