Oldest Known Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Found
The planets around the nearby red-dwarf Kapteyn’s star are over twice as old as Earth (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – An international team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary…
Hubble Team Unveils Most Colorful View of Universe Captured by Space Telescope
(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe — among the most colorful deep space images ever captured by the 24-year-old…
100 Million Planets in our Galaxy May Harbor Complex Life
One Percent of All Exoplanets May Be Suitable for Complex Organisms (PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The number of planets on which complex life could exist in the Milky Way may…
Tropical cyclone ‘maximum intensity’ is shifting toward poles
(NOAA) – Over the past 30 years, the location where tropical cyclones reach maximum intensity has been shifting toward the poles in both the northern and southern hemispheres at a…
New Crater found on Mars by MRO
Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The…
Camelopardalids Meteor shower could produce 1000 per hour! TODAY
(NASA) Step outside and take a look at the skies on the evening of May 23 into the early morning of May 24. Scientists are anticipating a new meteor shower,…
Planet Hunter Kepler new mission APPROVED!
The Kepler Spacecraft has found more planets than any other mission in history. After completing it’s primary mission it experienced reaction wheel failures during an extended life mission and could…
Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot Shrinking, Could Disappear
(NASA) If you have not taken the time to look through a telescope at the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter you should do it, if you wait to long it…
