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Egypt Calls on UK to Return Rosetta Stone
Egypt renewed its request for the British Museum to return the prized Rosetta stone to its country of origin.
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Sofia Science Festival to Feature Rosetta Mission's Chief Scientist
Astronomy will be among the highlights of the Sofia Science Festival's sixth edition that is due next week.
The festival, organized by the British Council, will take place between May 12 and 15 in the Zaimov park and the adjacent Theater Sofia, near Sofia's central area.
Panspermia and the Drake Equation: Looking Good
One by one, the empty boxes in the Drake Equation are being filled in with actual numbers, and it's looking good. So good that Yuri Milner is spending $100 million of his own money over the next ten years to fund the search for non-human civilisations orbiting other stars.
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Comet 67P, robot lab Philae's alien host, nears Sun
A comet streaking through space with a European robot lab riding piggyback will skirt the Sun this week, setting another landmark in an extraordinary quest to unravel the origins of life on Earth.
Philae's comet may host alien 'life': astronomers
Astronomers proposed a novel explanation July 6 for the strange appearance of the comet carrying Europe's robot probe Philae through outer space: alien microscopic life.
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Comet probe 'sniffed' organic molecules: early data
Mankind's first-ever probe of a comet found traces of organic molecules and a surface much harder than imagined, scientists said Tuesday of initial sample data from robot lab Philae.
Space agency releases 1st picture from comet
The European Space Agency on Thursday published the first image taken from the surface of a comet, and said that its Philae lander is still "stable" despite a failure to latch on properly to the rocky terrain.
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Philae lands on comet in space first
The European probe Philae has made the first-ever landing on a comet, a crowning phase in a quest to explore the origins of the Solar System, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Nov. 12.
The robot lab landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko around seven hours after separating from its mother ship Rosetta more than 510 million kilometres (320 million miles) from Earth, it said.
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All systems go for historic comet landing
The European Space Agency (ESA) ordered a probe to attempt Wednesday the first landing on a comet and investigate one of the great mysteries of the Solar System.
"We've got the final go" for the operation, an ESA spokeswoman said at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.
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All systems go for comet landing: ESA after final check
The probe Philae has been given the green light to attempt the first landing on a comet on Nov. 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
"We've got the final go" for the operation, an ESA spokeswoman said at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.