A streak of blue light that flashed across the sky on Monday surprised western Australia’s night owls and befuddled the astronomy community. The blue fireball was...
To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars. It also has to orbit in the habitable zones of...
An artist’s impression of the green glow detected around Mars (ESA) Mars may be known as the Red Planet, but a European spacecraft has now detected...
There’s only one planet we know of in the entire Universe that’s capable of hosting life. That’s Earth. So, when we search for exoplanets that might...
Artist’s conception of Kepler telescope observing planets transiting a distant star. Credit: NASA Ames/W Stenzel There may be as many as one Earth-like planet for every...
New estimate suggests that 18% of Sun-like (G-type) stars could have a planet the size of Earth orbiting in their conservative habitable zone. There may be...
Billions of Earths According to new research, there could be as many as six billion Earth-like planets orbiting stars in our galaxy. “Our Milky Way has...
It only takes minutes into a conversation with Farah Alibay about her job at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to realize there’s nowhere else she’d rather be....
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Students from across the nation will have an opportunity this week to ask questions of NASA astronauts aboard the International...
Artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter detecting the green glow of oxygen in the martian atmosphere.Image: ESA The Red Planet has a touch of...
