October 21, 2015 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft wakes up for Pluto encounter in 2015 Pluto, get ready for your close-up: A NASA spacecraft has roused itself from the final slumber of its nine-year trek to the edge of the solar system, setting the stage for the first close encounter with Pluto next year.
October 21, 2015 'Venus Zone' could aid search for Earth-like alien worlds Exoplanet hunters have just made it easier to identify alien Venuses, in the hopes that doing so will lead to the discovery of more alien Earths.
October 21, 2015 Greetings from Earth! NASA spacecraft to carry message for aliens A NASA probe that's expected to leave the solar system after it finishes its mission at Pluto and beyond will carry a message intended for any alien life-form that comes across it in the far future.
October 21, 2015 A planet past Pluto? Astronomers redefine the solar system's edge Scientists have discovery a distant dwarf planet found well past Pluto -- and its existence suggests there may be another planet out there, a rogue giant ten times bigger than Earth.
October 21, 2015 Alien planet 11 times bigger than Jupiter found in bizarre, massive orbit An enormous alien planet — one that is 11 times more massive than Jupiter — was discovered in the most distant orbit yet found around a single parent star.
October 21, 2015 NASA finds plastic ingredient on Saturn's moon Titan For the first time, a chemical essential for the creation of plastic on Earth has been found in a far-off part of the solar system: Saturn's largest Titan.
October 21, 2015 'Extrasolar cartography' could provide rough pictures of alien worlds Astronomers could one day create rough maps of far-away planets using information taken from starlight reflection, determining the balance of oceans, lands and overhanging clouds.
October 21, 2015 No 'Death Star' for US, White House says The planet-killing Death Star may have been the ultimate weapon for the Empire in the "Star Wars" films, but it has no place in the United States military today, a White House official said.
October 21, 2015 'Nile river' discovered on Saturn moon Titan -- first river on another planet The Cassini Solstice mission has discovered what appears to be a miniature version* of the Nile River on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The 400 kilometer (250 mile) long feature -- from 'headwaters' to a large sea -- is the longest extraterrestrial river ever to be discovered and imaged to such high resolution.
October 21, 2015 Huge Saturn storm keeps surprising scientists A massive storm that encircled Saturn nearly two years ago was even more powerful than scientists had thought, new research reveals.
