Made famous in the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey Jupiter’s Moon Europa may make truth out of the science fiction movie. We have not heard the message from the movie…

(Source NASA) – Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The…

For those of us who were saddened when the second of four reaction wheels failed on Kepler and the mission was ended it was a great blow. Kepler has done…

(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – The milestone of 1,000 confirmed exoplanets was surpassed today after twenty-one years of discoveries. The long-established and well-known Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia now lists 1,010 confirmed exoplanets….

(Source PHL @ UPR Arecibo) – According to the Exoplanet Catalog maintained by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, the number of confirmed planets outside our…

(Source NASA) – Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and international scientists…

NASA is now looking for a new mission for Kepler. This mission would use only two reaction wheels now that attempts to revive one of the failed wheels has not…

The primary tool in the search for exo-Earths may return to service. Recently the second of four reaction wheels failed on the Kepler Telescope. At least three wheels are needed…