Kepler-10c is a Mega-Earth New data on a planet discovered by the Kepler space telescope back in 2011 has helped scientists to determine that Kepler-10c is actually a new type of planet — a huge, rocky “mega-Earth” that shouldn’t be able to exist...
Jun 3 2014, 1:36am CDT
Pink Dwarf Planet Biden Spotted Beyond Pluto A new, “pink”, dwarf planet has been discovered beyond the known edge of the solar system in an area that should be completely empty according to our best theories. The object – provisionally called 2012 VP113 but...
Mar 27 2014, 2:22pm CDT
Detecting Water Vapor On A 'Hot Jupiter' Around Tau Bootis For the first time, a team of American astronomers has used near-infrared spectroscopy to directly detect water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant planet in close orbit around the bright star tau Bootis — one that...
Feb 27 2014, 2:51am CST
Astronomers Find A Planet That Wobbles Like A Top Newly discovered planet Kepler-413b is about 2,300 light years from Earth. It circles its two suns – an orange and red dwarf – every 66 days. It’s a gas giant that’s larger than the planet Neptune It also wobbles like a...
Feb 6 2014, 5:42pm CST
Nearest Dying White Dwarfs Likely Still Harbor Planets More than two dozen nearby stellar White Dwarfs — the burnt- out remnant cores of solar type stars in their final death throes — show evidence of relic planetary systems. A few may even harbor full-sized rocky type...
Jan 29 2014, 5:48pm CST
ExoPlanet Covered With Clouds Detected in Outer Space The Hubble Telescope has detected what could be the greatest discovery of present times. A planet covered with clouds has been descried in the depths of outer space. This has led to speculation regarding the possibility of alien life forms on other planets.
Jan 1 2014, 9:55am CST
Kepler is Dead in Space The Kepler telescope with the mission to find other inhabitable planets has technical problems that make it unusable.
May 16 2013, 7:03am CDT
Massive Hurricane Discovered on Saturn by NASA The NASA Cassini probe has gotten some very up, close and personal views of Saturn. The hurricane in Saturn has been captured by the probe with high fidelity. Such photos of a different world from ours are proof of Einstein’s dictum that science is the ultimate source of the mysterious and religious.
May 1 2013, 5:45am CDT
New Earth Found? Newly discovered Planet may be habitable.
Sep 30 2010, 3:55am CDT
New Huge Ring Around Saturn Discovered If you look to closely you sometimes miss the full picture like in the case of planet Saturn. Saturn is known for his rings. Now NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn.
Oct 7 2009, 10:08am CDT
Official: Pluto is a Dwarf Planet As reported 2,500 scientists from around the world are currently in Prague, Czech Republic to discuss and define for all time exactly what constitutes a planet.
They finalized the requirements today and Pluto looses...
Aug 24 2006, 12:41pm CDT
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