Planets misaligned in exoplanet system
(Source NASA) – A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters, gas giant planets that snuggly orbit their host star. To explain their short orbital…
(Source NASA) – A long-standing puzzle in the study of exoplanets is the formation of hot Jupiters, gas giant planets that snuggly orbit their host star. To explain their short orbital…
(Source NASA) – A new image of the sunward plunging comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might disintegrate as the…
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, named PSO J318.5-22 was found using the Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) wide-field survey…
For the first time we now have an idea what the clouds look like on a planet outside our own solar system. This is an amazing find, To think that…
(NASA) – Astronomers may have found the densest galaxy in the nearby universe. The galaxy, known as M60-UCD1, is located near a massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, also called M60,…
Last month controllers lost contact with NASA’s Deep Impact mission, several weeks were spent trying to uplink commands to reactivate it’s onboard systems. The last communication with the probe was…
(NASA) – The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered the largest known population of globular star clusters, an estimated 160,000, swarming like bees inside the crowded core of the giant grouping of galaxies…
It is official, NASA has announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched 36 years ago, has exited our solar system and entered interstellar space. KnowledgeOrb has been reporting on the…