Search for Life

SETI may have found the first habitable Earth sized planet.

First Potentially Habitable Terran World Kepler-186 is a stellar system of five planets with an Earth-size world in the habitable…

11 years ago

Stars with Multiple Habitable Planets Might be Common

An international team of astronomers led by Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire announced the discovery of four nearby potentially habitable…

11 years ago

NASA announcement nearly doubles known number of exo-planets

NASA today added another 715 new worlds to the list of known planets outside our own solar system. These newly-verified…

11 years ago

Herschel Telescope Detects Water on Dwarf Planet

(NASA) Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and…

11 years ago

Hubble Sees Water Venting from Jupiter’s Moon Europa

Made famous in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey Jupiter's Moon Europa may make truth out of the science fiction…

11 years ago

Hubble finds water on distant worlds

(Source NASA) - Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures…

11 years ago

New Life for Planet Hunter Kepler!

For those of us who were saddened when the second of four reaction wheels failed on Kepler and the mission…

11 years ago

Over One Thousand Exoplanets found in Two Decades

(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) - The milestone of 1,000 confirmed exoplanets was surpassed today after twenty-one years of discoveries.…

11 years ago

The Top 12 Habitable Exoplanets

(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) - According to the Exoplanet Catalog maintained by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto…

11 years ago

Bad News, No Methane on Mars-Therefore No Life on Mars?

(Source NASA) - Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to…

11 years ago