NASA’s Kepler space telescope watches a star, Kepler-11. The star appears to blink in a pattern. It dims like clockwork as six “hands” of differing size orbit around it at …
NASA invited social media users from across the country to help cover the launch of the agency’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) — the second of NASA’s five Earth science missions …
NASA Commentator Crawford Jones talks with Dr. Andre Schiele, the head of the ESA (European Space Agency) Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory and the principal investigator of the Interact experiment, about …
There’s a new exoplanet on the galactic map and scientists are particularly excited about it. That’s because it will be their first opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky …
NASA’s OCO-2 mission, scheduled to launch July 1 from Vandenberg AFB, California, will make precise measurements of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. The orbiting observatory is NASA’s first satellite mission …
NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, launching July 2014, will study carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and help us understand how fast it will build up in the future. The mission will …
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the …
Update: Tabby’star KIC 8462852 : Kepler Space Telescope is tasked with finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. However, exoplanets aren’t the only thing Kepler can detect — stellar flares, …
I believe the arching of the back is a critical component of the maneuver. 30 second version of the question is here: Please retweet so the Astronauts see this: Also, …
Earth Is Not Just Orbiting The Sun like we all have come to think. It sounds really stupid but this video is not a joke. We view our planet(s) circling …