NASAs Kepler Finds First Earth Sized Planets
Kepler Finds First Earth-Size Planets Beyond Our Solar System Found MOFFET FIELD, Calif. — The Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system….
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Russian Maridian satellite fails, rocket explodes
A Russian military launch of communications network Satellite failed On the heals of the loss of the Phobos Grunt mission Russia has yet another failure. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off…
JWST a window into the beginning of time
Largest Space Telescope ever, JWST can look back in time The American space agency, NASA, is building the largest space telescope ever. The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA’s…
SpaceX Falcon Rocket has twice payload capacity
Falcon Rocket only overshadowed by Saturn 5 WASHINGTON – CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and launch date for the…
Voyager Hits New Region at Solar System Edge
Voyager near edge of interstellar space Source NASA – WASHINGTON — NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from…
SETI Array searching for life in habitable zone
SETI search now focused on stars with planets The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence is once again back on. Last April SETI had to turn off their equipment due to…
Kepler finds planet within the Habitable Zone!
First planet in zone that could support life found (Source – NASA): This diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first “habitable zone” planet…
SDO sees solar breakaway prominence end
Source – NASA – A long, solar prominence that rotated into view almost two weeks ago finally became disorganized and broke away into space forming a nifty large loop as…
