How Many Habitable Planets Are Out There?
Mountain View, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as many … Read more
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Christmas Week: Worlds Will Align for Spectacular Heavenly Sight
Jupiter, Saturn will look like double planet for first time since Middle Ages Houston, TX-(ENEWSPF)- Just after sunset on the evening of … Read more
Astronomers Discover New “Fossil Galaxy” Buried Deep Within the Milky Way
SDSS-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists working with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys’ Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) have discovered a “fossil … Read more
Hubble Catches Possible ‘shadow Play’ of the Disk Around a Black Hole
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Some of the most stunning views of our sky occur at sunset, when sunlight pierces the clouds, creating a mixture … Read more
Solar Orbiter Launch Takes Solar Science to New Heights
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Has Been Assembled for the First Time
By Thaddeus CesariNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Goddard Space Science Center-(ENEWSPF)-Reaching a major milestone, engineers have successfully connected the two halves of NASA’s James Webb … Read more
Star-quake Vibrations lead to New Estimate for Age of Milky Way
Data gathered by NASA’s now-defunct Kepler telescope provides a solution to an astronomical mystery. Royal Astronomical Society-(ENEWSPF)- Star-quakes recorded by NASA’s Kepler … Read more
Northwestern U: ‘Are We Alone?’ Study Refines Which Exoplanets Are Potentially Habitable
Evanston, IL-(ENEWSPF)- In order to search for life in outer space, astronomers first need to know where to look. A new Northwestern … Read more
New Hubble Constant Measurement Adds to Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate
Red Giant Stars Used as Milepost Markers Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have made a new measurement of how fast the universe is expanding, … Read more
First Ever Solar Eclipse Film Brough Back to Life
London, UK-(ENEWSPF)- The BFI and the Royal Astronomical Society have announced the rediscovery of the earliest moving picture of a total solar eclipse from … Read more