Zeeya Merali & Brendan Foster round up the top physics news of July, including the Pluto flyby, the creation of the new pentaquark particle at the LHC, & the discovery of Kepler 452b, the most Earth-like planet discovered yet. Featuring cosmologist Andrew Pontzen.

Founder of modern SETI, Frank Drake, discusses the new $100 million mission to listen out for alien communications. He talks about search strategies, the Drake equation, and why he's scared the aliens are sending us holograms. In this extended interview Drake also discusses new SETI job opportunities.

Physicist Keith Schwab is on a quest to test quantum gravity in the lab, and to discover whether gravity causes quantum systems to collapse into classical ones, as he explains to reporter Carinne Piekema.

Cosmologist Roberto Trotta describes his attempt to junk astronomy jargon in his new book, "The Edge of the Sky," which uses only the 1000 most common words in the English language, as he explains to reporter Sophie Hebden.