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Planetary alignment that will take place Dec 3, 2012 is dead-on alignment with the Pyramids at Giza. Night Sky in…
On August 5, 2012, NASA’s newest Mars rover, named Curiosity, will land on the martian surface.
Two teams of astronomers employed a technique for finding extrasolar planets to directly measure one such planet. The approach could…
Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the…
Little, rocky planets can coalesce around a wide variety of stars, suggesting that Earth-like alien worlds may have formed early…
We’ve had the Face on Mars, the Smiley Face on Mars, even the Elephant Face on Mars — and now we’ve…
By Terrence Aym US and Russian Martian space probes have mysteriously vanished over the past four decades. One probe was…
Alien planets may possibly be easier to spot utilizing new ‘laser comb.’ The picture above illustrates component of a spectrum…
By Natalie Wolchover A planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system…
On May 20th, 2012 an Partial Eclipse will cover the USA, Mexico, and half of the World. The “half circle”…
Our solar system could have a ‘twin’ 130 light years away – with up to nine planets including ‘rocky’ planets…
SETI telescopes have received so much data while scanning Kepler planets, that they are now begging for help sorting through…
Although the planets are around 450 million miles apart in space, from March 13 they will appear to be separated…
By BBC News Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a new class of planet: a waterworld with a thick, steamy…
#1 Gliese 667C c (Exoplanet in the Constellation Scorpius)
By Nhm.ac.uk Last year came to an exciting end with the discovery of an Earth-like planet, Kepler-22b, orbiting a sun-like…
Maybe Frank should have sung “Fly Me to the Moons.” Scientists studying satellites orbiting the planet have come to an…