Light of Alien “Super Earth” seen by Spitzer
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the…
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a “super-Earth” planet beyond our solar system for the first time. While the planet is not habitable, the…
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has been approved for extension through fiscal year 2016 based on a recommendation from the Agency’s Senior Review of its operating missions.. The…
New planet best example yet of planet in habitable zone. An International research team analyzed data from the European Southern Observatory about a star known as GJ 667C. The researchers…
Interstellar Wind Makeup NASA – NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer , known as IBEX for short, methodically measures samples of the mysterious neighborhood beyond our home. IBEX scans the entire sky…
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets MOFFET FIELD, Calif. (NASA)– These discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number…
Kepler Finds First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System Found MOFFET FIELD, Calif. — The Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system….
SETI search now focused on stars with planets The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is once again back on. Last April SETI had to turn off their equipment due to…
First planet in zone that could support life found (Source – NASA): This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet…