NASA recruited a new
The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.
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The central tool of the new mission will be the TESS space observatory, abbreviated from the Transit Planet Satellite Satellite, scheduled to orbit in 2017.
European astronomers have announced the image of a star about 3,300 light-years from Earth, emitting the last bright light before disappearing forever.
For the first time, astrophysicists at the University of Geneva in Switzerland discovered a black hole swallowing a planet with an estimated mass of 15 times that of Jup…
Recent research by American scientists has explained the cause of our planet continuously suffered meteorite disasters and one of these caused the Great Flood.
Chilean astronomers said that for the first time they observed directly a planet picturing inside a disk of gas and thick dust at the star system 335 light years away.
The newly discovered planet, named Kepler-37b, is only slightly larger than the Moon and takes 13 days to complete an orbit around its star.
The January 2 issue of Nature published the findings of Chilean astronomers, who discovered the origin of the giant planets in the universe, similar to Jupiter and Satur…
One day after the apocalyptic rumor, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) gave the good news, that concerns about asteroids colliding with the earth will not happen.
Here are the strangest new planets discovered by astronomers in 2012, according to Live Science magazine.
The University of Central Florida's Solar Exploration Planetary Laboratory (UCF) team won a free space flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in December. two t…
US media reported on November 19 that astronomers have discovered a planet 13 times more massive than Jupiter - the largest and heaviest planet of the Solar System.
Astronomers have discovered a planet whose sky has four different suns. This is the first time such a planet has been found.
Helix, the name of a nebula about 650 light-years from Earth, is dubbed
Pr0201-b and Pr0211-b, the names of two new planets found, about 550 light-years from the Earth and belonging to the constellation Cancer.