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Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded To Study The Nearest Exoplanets To Earth

One of the biggest space stories of 2016 was the discovery of the Earth-scale planet Proxima b in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Located only 4...

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Project Blue Wants To Photograph the Nearest Earth-like Planet

In 2009, NASA launched the Kepler space observatory into an orbit around the sun with the express purpose of using the satellite to discover Earth-like planets orbiting oth...

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Who Needs A Sun? Alien Life Could Survive Off Of Cosmic Rays

When searching for life on other planets, we tend to look for conditions similar to Earth—after all, that’s the only place we’ve found life in the univers...

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Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny...

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NASA’s New Space Telescope Will Study Dark Energy And Earth-Sized Planets

It’s finally official: NASA’s next major telescope project will be the innovative Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST). The space telescope is projecte...

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How Astronomers Will Actually Image The Solar System's Ninth Planet

The minds of space nerds around the world collectively exploded yesterday, after astronomers announced that there is likely an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet in the oute...

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Nasa?s Latest Rover Concept Is Inspired By Worms And Amoebas

Every rover we have sent to explore other planets has had the same basic ?lab-on-wheels? design, with the exception of the adorable skiing Prop M robots of the Soviet space...

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France And India Look To The Sun To Save The Planet

France and India on Monday launched an international alliance seeking to mobilise more than a trillion dollars by 2030 and deliver clean, solar energy to some of ...

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A Step-By-Step Guide To Terraforming Mars

It has been a long dream for humankind to discover another liveable planet. But because of severe conditions such as powerful solar winds and a lack of atmosphere, our good...

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‘We Were So Surprised’: Researchers Detect Oxygen On Rosetta’s Comet

Rosetta’s ROSINA instrument—a mass spectrometer—detected O2 in the icy body’s coma, the cloud of gas and dust and other space stuff around Comet 67P...

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