NASA Kepler hints at over 250 new potentially habitable worlds

12 years ago

NASA Kepler released last month 18,406 planet-like detection events from its last three year mission to search for exoplanets (Kepler…

NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite

12 years ago

(Source NASA) -- NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base…

Video from Chandra, Nutron Star Ejecting Jets of Particles

12 years ago

The hero of this Chandra movie is the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that was formed when a massive star…

Solar activity heating up, large flare and more sun spots

12 years ago

Today 1/9/13 at approximately 05:30 UTC a very large solar flare occurred as can be seen in the image above.  It does…

India Plans Launch “Mangalyaan” Mission to Mars in November 2013

12 years ago

In an announcement on Friday at the Indian Science Congress (ISC) by J N Goswam. director of the Physical Research Laboratory in…

Solar Flare Ballet 12-31-12

12 years ago

A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on December 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the…

Quadrantids Meteor Shower This Week

12 years ago

Should be a good show but the brightness of the moon could hinder observations.  The beginning of the 2013 shower…

Critical Gaps Looming in Important Earth Observation Data

12 years ago

GAO Predicts a gap in data of 17-53 months Above our heads in low Earth Polar Orbit a series of…

The Potentially Habitable Universe Around Us

12 years ago

More exoplanets than expected in the first year of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. The first confirmed extrasolar planets, or exoplanets,…

Solar Cycle 24 not following Sun Spot Activity Predictions

12 years ago

Every eleven years the sun experiences a peak of sun spot activity, we are nearing this peak period now but…