NASA Scientists find 20 potentially habitable planets
Trick or treat? I'm dressed as a habitable planet.
Trick or treat? I'm dressed as a habitable planet.
For decades, researchers have studied our planet's orbit with growing interest: is there something special about the way the Earth ...
Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you ...
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with ...
A statistical analysis of observations based on the Kepler telescope indicates that 20 percent of all stars in the Milky ...
It's a big, bad, lava world - and according to what we know about astronomy, it simply shouldn't exist. Artistic ...
Observations from NASA's Kepler spacecraft have for the first time uncovered a 'tilted' solar system, with two planets orbiting a ...
Astronomers have created the first cloud map of a planet outside our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as ...
Stars have a pull on all planets, but they exhibit a special kind of attraction towards a class of planets ...
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful ...
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...
Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective ...
Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...
Kepler, a space telescope on a mission to find alien planets by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 ...
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our ...
Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the ...
There's been a lot of buzz around the planets discovered by the Kepler telescope, particularly about Kepler-22b - the planet ...
The race for finding habitable planets outside our solar system is definitely heating up. After we told you about Gliese, ...
It's not that uncommon for two stars to dance, but when three of them get together, and dance without singing, ...
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000 ...