<p></p> <p>This Cassini image shows Jupiter from an unusual perspective. If you were to float just beneath the giant planet and look directly up, you would be greeted with this striking
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Exactly five years ago, on March 6, 2009, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place– the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.</p> <p>These dead stars
<p>NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of
<p>NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.</p> <p>The planets are located in
<p>Astronomers searching for Earthlike worlds need look no further than Alpha Centauri, the stellar system next door it seems.</p> <p style="text-align:center" class="small"><br /> The video above shows a fly-through of the bright