First Of NASA’S Two Grail Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Moon PASADENA, Calif. — The first of two NASA spacecraft to study the moon in unprecedented detail has entered lunar orbit….

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….

A Russian military launch of communications network Satellite failed On the heals of the loss of the Phobos Grunt mission Russia has yet another failure. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket  lifted off…

Largest Space Telescope ever, JWST can look back in time The American space agency, NASA, is building the largest space telescope ever. The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA’s…

  Falcon Rocket only overshadowed by Saturn 5 WASHINGTON –  CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the…

Voyager near edge of interstellar space Source NASA – WASHINGTON — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from…

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…