The continuing success of NASA’s Kepler mission was highlighted on Monday, following the discovery of 461 new planet candidates – four of which are less than twice the size of Earth and orbit in their sun’s habitable zone. Scientists believe it’s just a matter of “when” a twin of our own planet is found by the spacecraft.
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…
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…
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a Delta IV rocket on Wednesday evening, carrying the…
Space exploration in 2015 was an unprecedented series of firsts and major achievements. But for…
United Launch Alliance has conducted its hundredth launch Friday with a rare commercial mission on…
An array of high tech instruments are being put through their paces ahead of becoming…
For NASA, 2014 marked the 10th anniversary of MESSENGER in space and the tenth anniversary…