The number of known alien planets has just gone up by more than 60 percent. NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered 1,284 new exoplanets , including nine rocky worlds that might be capable of supporting life as we know it, astronomers announced today (May 10). This is by far the largest haul of alien planets […]
Geysers spout from Enceladus as seen by the Cassini spacecraft. It observed 101 geysers during a campaign in 2010. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A small water jet on Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, spews its fiercest eruptions when the moon is farthest from the planet, a new study suggests, but the overall gas output […]
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<div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”34″> Kepler’s 1,284-Planet Haul in Pics Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle On May 10, 2016, NASA announced the discovery of 1,284 more alien planets by is Kepler Space Telescope, a haul that includes nine exoplanets that might be habitable. See the discovery explained in images here. FIRST: Meet Kepler <div data-cycle-pager-template=”” readability=”33″> Meet Kepler […]
A stunning digital model of Mercury unveils the planet’s striking landscape, while other new maps provide a closer look at the shadowed northern pole and reveal the highest and lowest points on the closest planet to the sun. Built with data from NASA’s MESSENGER mission that orbited Mercury for four years, the new maps offer […]
The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette, lower third of image, as it transits across the face of the sun Monday, May 9, 2016, as viewed from Boyertown, Pennsylvania. Mercury passes between Earth and the sun only about 13 times a century, with the previous transit taking place in 2006. To source
Regency-Superior Auctioneers of St. Louis will sell the “largest existing piece of Skylab wreckage,” part of the space station’s oxygen tank. Credit: Regency-Superior A massive chunk of the United States’ first space station is about to land at auction. Billed as the “largest existing piece of Skylab wreckage in private hands,” Regency-Superior Auctioneers of St. […]
GREENBELT, Md. — The small planet Mercury is making a rare transit of the sun today (May 9), the first such event of its kind in a decade, as the world looks on. Case in point: this awesome NASA video captured just as Mercury began its journey across the sun, as seen from Earth. <img […]
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One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world got off to a flying start today as thousands of scientists from around the world gathered in the Czech Republic to present their latest findings on our changing planet. To source
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