New Atlas media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places New Atlas in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is New Atlas biased?
Ad Fontes Media places New Atlas in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is New Atlas left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places New Atlas in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is New Atlas reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for New Atlas are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What New Atlas has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with New Atlas’s own report linked underneath.
Researchers in China have set a new world record for the lowest temperature, achieving 9.7 picokelvins aboard the Tiangong space station. The experiment, published in Science, involved cooling rubidium atoms in a microgravity environment and could lead to new physics experiments.
New Atlas reported it asSpace experiment shatters record for lowest temperature (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Scientists have identified an icy object, named 2026 ED138, orbiting the sun beyond Pluto. The object's size is estimated between 600 and 1,500 kilometres in diameter. Classification as a dwarf planet depends on further study.
New Atlas reported it asWorld's largest digital camera snaps new world beyond Pluto (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
An artificial intelligence model can predict cancer patients' survival risk and biological aging from a single facial photograph. The research, conducted by Mass General Brigham, used a model trained on over 40 million facial images.
New Atlas reported it asSingle photo predicts your chances of surviving cancer treatment (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Tesla has unveiled a redesigned Roadster at SpaceX's Texas facility, featuring rocket-style thrusters that enabled it to perform aerial stunts. Production is planned to begin in 2028, with claims of accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in under a second.
New Atlas reported it asDo the Tesla Roadster's aerial stunts count as flying? (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Lockheed Martin has revealed the PAC-3 Edge, a new missile interceptor intended to counter hypersonic and advanced threats. The company plans significant investment in the project, with testing slated for 2027 and deployment by 2031.
New Atlas reported it asLockheed's new PAC-3 Edge interceptor to counter hypersonic threats (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded Boeing a contract exceeding $20 billion to develop the Navy's next-generation fighter jet, the F/A-XX. This decision follows Boeing's victory over Northrop Grumman in the competition for the program, which aims to replace the Super Hornet fleet.
New Atlas reported it asBoeing wins 'mystery fighter' contract for US Navy (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket on its first orbital test flight on Monday. The mission aims to deploy satellites and test systems critical for future NASA moon missions, with a planned splashdown off the coast of Chile.
New Atlas reported it asLargest rocket ever built successfully enters orbit (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Huawei has announced plans to release four new Ascend AI chips within the next three years, aiming to compete with Nvidia. The Ascend 950 chip will feature proprietary high-bandwidth memory, a key technological advancement for China. The company also plans new computing power supernodes.
New Atlas reported it asChina's AI superchip set to reshape the 'arms race' as early as January (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Andy Green, the only person to break the sound barrier in a car, set a new land speed record of 406.320 mph in a hydrogen-powered vehicle at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The JCB Hydromax, using modified construction engines, surpassed the previous hydrogen record by over 200 mph.
New Atlas reported it asSound barrier-breaking driver sets zero-emissions land speed record (opens New Atlas in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Gizmag Pty LtdIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Australia
- Official site
- newatlas.com
- Seen publishing on
- newatlas.com
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 13 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. New Atlas is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of New Atlas: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 November 2026. Ratings pulled 13 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as New Atlas, also publishing from Australia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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