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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
Surprising frozen plains in Pluto’s heart
The latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveals a vast, craterless plain apparently no more than 100 million years old.
July 17, 2015
Jurassic saw fastest mammal evolution
A new study suggests that mammal 'experimentation' with different body-plans and tooth types peaked in the mid-Jurassic period, 200-145 million years ago
July 17, 2015
Stratosphere pushes Santa Ana wind wildfires
A study says that the Santa Ana winds have an accomplice when it comes to California wildfires - extremely dry air pulled down from the stratosphere.
July 16, 2015
New Horizons spacecraft sweeps past Pluto
New Horizons is alive and well and beyond the Pluto system. On Wednesday, scientists began releasing close-up images of geology on this distant ice world.
July 15, 2015
Charon’s surface youthful and varied
Pluto’s largest moon Charon has cliffs, troughs and a dark marking at its north pole, nicknamed 'Mordor' by New Horizons scientists.
July 15, 2015
Astronomers find Jupiter and sun twins
The most accurate analog ever found for our sun and and its largest planet, Jupiter. Could there be another Earth in this system, too?
July 15, 2015
We’re not heading into mini ice age
Any drop in solar activity will be dwarfed by the impact of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, says Jim Wild of Lancaster University.
July 15, 2015
Wonderful image! Saturn and moon Titan
Titan may be a large moon - its name even implies it - but it's still dwarfed by its parent planet, Saturn. Beautiful image from the Cassini spacecraft.
July 15, 2015
Dark matter bridge in cosmic neighborhood
Astronomers see a bridge of dark matter stretching from our Local Group to the Virgo galaxy cluster. It's bound on each side by vast bubbles devoid of galaxies.
July 14, 2015
