<p></p> <p>What’s icy, has “wobbly” potato-shaped moons, and is the world’s best-known dwarf planet? The answer is Pluto, and NASA’s New Horizons is speeding towards the edge of our solar system
<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>When the Space Age began, astronomers knew of exactly zero planets outside the solar system. What a difference 50 years makes. </p> <p> Modern, ground-based telescopes and NASA’s Kepler
<p>Alien planets are out there and Planetary Resources needs your help to find them! That’s right, the same high-powered telescope technology being used by Planetary Resources to identify near-Earth asteroids
<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>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
<p>Back in 2011 astronomers were amazed when NASA’s Kepler spacecraft discovered a planet orbiting a double star system. Such a world, they realized, would have double sunsets and sunrises