Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from … Read more
A team of astronomers that includes Penn State scientists has discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the distance … Read more
An international team led by astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and La Laguna University (ULL) has just completed the first analysis … Read more
NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through … Read more
To date, scientists have confirmed the existence of more than 900 exoplanets circulating outside our solar system. To determine if any of these far-off worlds … Read more
Principal Investigator George Ricker likes to call it the “Goldilocks orbit” — it’s not too close to Earth and her Moon, and it’s not too … Read more
The first gravitational lens, a phenomenon in which light from a distant object is bent around a massive foreground object, was discovered in 1979 by a team led by Dr. Dennis Walsh from The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory.
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Imagine building a car chassis without a blueprint or even a list of recommended construction materials. In a sense, that’s precisely what a team of … Read more
Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter’s moon Io…
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