As the highly successful Kepler spacecraft ends its 9-year mission, humanity can look back at an instrument that greatly expanded our knowledge of planetary systems around other stars and discovered many Earth-sized and smaller planets, some of them in the habitable zone where liquid water, and therefore life as we know it, could exist.
The continuing success of NASA’s Kepler mission was highlighted on Monday, following the discovery of…
Following on the planetary accomplishments of NASA’s fleet of unmanned solar system explorers in 2011,…
After one and one half years in space, NASA’s Kepler observatory, a telescope designed to…
The Delta II launch team at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station have launched NASA’s…
The Indian Space Research Organisation launched a PSLV rocket Thursday, carrying thirty-one payloads including the…
As another spacecraft prepares to land on Mars, the Dawn spacecraft recently ended its mission…
The joint NASA / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS,…
After twenty-nine years of reliable service, United Launch Alliance’s veteran Delta II rocket made its…
NASA’s InSight mission began a six-month journey to Mars on Saturday with liftoff aboard United…
SpaceX has launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS – with the launch on…
Next month, SpaceX is set to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is…
NASA has announced the discovery of a planetary system around star K2-138. The discovery was…
China conducted its fourth orbital launch of 2018 using a Long March 11 rocket –…
The second pair of Gaojing-1 (SuperView-1) satellites were launched from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center…
The Chinese are looking to bounce back from last year’s failures that almost brought their…
As 2017 comes to a close, it does so in the realm of exoplanet research…
China successfully launched a new pair of navigation satellites – namely the Beidou-3M1 (Beidou-24) and…
The Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, has launched three new crewmembers to the International Space…
In 2016, our understanding of our cosmic home might have taken its most significant leap…