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Earth elements dictate whether plate tectonics can happen
And plate tectonics may be essential for life. A new theory of Earth's composition suggests another factor to consider in the search for habitable exoplanets.
July 21, 2015
Large Hadron Collider discovers new particle
They're calling them pentaquarks. What you need to know of the latest discovery about the tiny particles that make up our world.
July 21, 2015
Philae comet lander falls silent
The Rosetta team is hoping that a software patch will help re-establish reliable contact with the little Philae lander, lodged somewhere on the comet's surface.
July 20, 2015
Unprecedented $100 million to SETI
Breakthrough Listen initiative, announced Monday, will scan the nearest million stars, plus stars in 100 other galaxies, for signs of an advanced civilization.
July 20, 2015
Intelligent life in the universe?
Scientific arguments suggest that alien civilizations should be common in our galaxy. If so, where is everybody? That question is known as the Fermi paradox.
July 20, 2015
State of the climate 2014: Record warmth
New report - released by American Meteorological Society - based on contributions from 413 scientists from 58 countries around the world.
July 20, 2015
When Earth’s continents rose above its oceans
Earth's thick continental crust - the land under our feet - may have risen from the oceans half a billion years earlier than scientists previously thought.
July 19, 2015
Mountain with a moat on Charon
Latest image release from New Horizons team shows Pluto's moon Charon a strange mountain rising out of a depression. They're calling it a “mountain in a moat.”
July 19, 2015
See it! Moon, Venus, Jupiter, comet
What a glorious western twilight sky on the nights of July 17 and 18, 2015! Waxing moon, brightest planets, and Comet C/2014 Q1 (PANSTARRS).
July 19, 2015
Update on mission to asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission is on target for a 2016 launch to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It will reach Bennu in 2018 and return samples to Earth in 2023.
July 18, 2015
