WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new way of studying planets in other solar systems – by doing sort of an autopsy on planetary wreckage devoured by a type of star called a white dwarf – is showing that rocky worlds with geochemistry similar to Earth may be quite commo... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on SpaceX’s first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system that might be capable of har... More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – SpaceX postponed a planned launch on Monday of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s latest planet-hunting satellite for 48 hours, citing problems with a guidance-navigation control system, launch team officials said. Blast-off fro... More »
FILE PHOTO: The Google logo is shown reflected on an adjacent office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis id... More »
FILE PHOTO: An artist’s composite of the Kepler telescope is seen in this undated NASA handout image. REUTERS/NASA/Handout/File Photo via Reuters Astronomers on Monday added 219 candidates to the growing list of planets beyond the solar system, 10 of which may... More »
Artist’s concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have found a nearby solar system with seven Earth-sized planets, three of wh... More »
