Crowd-Funded Space Telescope Friday, June 29th, 2012 NASA is currently spending only 5 million dollars a year looking for huge earth crossing asteroids. Thankfully so far none...
First SOFIA Missions Completed Saturday, January 15th, 2011 The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, successfully completed three planned scientific missions in...
A team of astronomers, including two NASA Sagan Fellows, has made the first characterizations of a super-Earth's atmosphere, by using a ground-based...
Five distant galaxies so choked with dust that they are completely invisible at optical wavelengths have been spotted at submillimetre wavelengths by...
Thursday, October 21st, 2010 - 18:11:08 - Anuradha Menon
Backyard stargazers with a telescope or binoculars and a clear night's sky can now inspect the comet that in a little over two weeks will become only...
Scientists working with NASA’s Kepler satellite reported Thursday that they might have spotted a planet just 1.5 times the diameter of Earth around a...
The Kepler Spacecraft Thursday, August 12th, 2010 Launched on March 6, 2009, the Kepler spacecraft is continuing to scan the heavens for Earth-like exoplanets. The $US591...
