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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
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
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
This date in science: America and Russia meet in space
On July 17, 1975, a famous first handshake between nations in space.
July 17, 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
