The Kepler spacecraft finds a new 'super-earth'
After monitoring and observing 100,000 different stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a new planet with a radius of about 1.6 times that of the Earth and…
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After monitoring and observing 100,000 different stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a new planet with a radius of about 1.6 times that of the Earth and…
American astronomers have discovered 18 new planets of the same size as Jupiter. They turn around stars larger than the sun.
Voyager 1 was launched by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in 1977 with Voyager 2 to explore the stars Thien Vuong, Hai Vuong, Moc and Tho.
Russian news agency Interfax said today there is little chance to save Russia's rare Mars detective ship, trapped in Earth orbit, after the ship was diverted to the Red…
On November 17, scientists said a giant lake was hidden beneath the surface of Europa - the sixth satellite orbiting Jupiter. This may be a trace of alien life.
The universe once experienced a dark age, which was the era when darkness enveloped before the first stars and galaxies appeared.
On August 18 Venus passed through the sun (seen from Earth) and since then, it has become invisible when obscured by the bright light of the sun.
The greatest mystery of the ancient supernova discovered by Chinese people 2000 years ago has been decoded.
Astronomers have found a planet with a radius twice as large as Earth, but a year there is only 18 hours on our planet.
NASA's Stereo twin spacecraft celebrated its fifth birthday on October 25, marking five years of studying the sun and its strong magnetic storms from its unique parallel…
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) is testing a form of space exploration that is cheaper than a missile program with shadow detectors.
An astronomer at the University of Hawaii has just captured the first direct image of a planet being born.
According to the latest research by scientists, life on Earth depends very much on explosions that release radiation that occurs in the universe.
It is difficult to build a spacecraft capable of going to some distant planet, but it is even more difficult to maintain life for astronauts throughout the journey.
The Satellite Planetary Survey Project (TESS) at MIT is one of 11 recent proposals, which are evaluated as potential future scientific missions, according to the US Spac…