Scientists Discover “Super Earth” Which Could Possibly Support Life

Scientists attempting to map our galaxy have found a trip-star system that could potentially support life and which is only 22 light years away from Earth. The rocky planet is known as  GJ 667Cc and is 4.5 times the ... continue

Kepler hits jackpot, discovers 26 new planets and 11 new star systems

NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission has been discovering planet after planet since it was launched back in 2009, but the latest discovery from the team is the biggest batch of new planets yet. NASA and its Kepler space telescope ... continue

Inspired by BBC Stargazing Live amateur discovers new planet far, far away.

Sorry about the bad play on a Star Wars idiom but it just seem to work in this case given that the discovery of a potential planet is of one located in a galaxy that is only ... continue

Scientists Rank Planets On “Livability” Index

Scientists have been working hard to create an index of "livable" planets that they believe are similar enough to Earth's makeup which in turn may be able to support human life. Known as the “Planetary Habitability Index,” scientsists index ... continue

Pluto’s twin is colder, more distant

In 2005, stargazing scientists discovered a previously unknown planet-like object, dubbed Eris, far off into the deepest reaches of our solar system in the Kuiper belt - even further away from us than Pluto. Its small size, ... continue

Mercury isn’t the planet they thought it was say planetary scientists

Back in 2004 when the MESSENGER craft was launched to begin its trip to study the planet Mercury planetary scientists had some basic ideas of what the planet would be like but now that images are finally ... continue

Super-Earth Could Support Life, Scientists Say

If Canada isn't far enough away from the Tea Party for you to comfortably set up residence, take heart- scientists have located a planet they believe can support human life, the Associated Press reports. The European Southern Observatory ... continue

Mars Orbiter discovers that Mars has caves

It is probably inevitable that man will at some point travel to Mars, and chances are it will be a company behind the expedition rather than NASA but at least now we know that they'll be able ... continue

New exoplanet makes our color black seem like a pale shade of gray

Exoplanets are astronomers and other scientists newest toy. These planets exist beyond our galaxy and at last count scientists believe that have found 573 of them. The one type of exoplanets that have scientists scratching their heads extra hard ... continue

[Pic] Relative Mass of Celestial Bodies

Wait for it... wait for it... spoiler alert, it's a "your mom is fat" joke. continue

Space: The final frontier – and some awesome art [8 Pics]

I am a sci-fi fan from way back and having an art background as well I love it when I come across artists that bring us their visions of what lies beyond our world. Over at the ... continue

Weird new planet discovered, named Wasp-17

A consortium of British universities, the Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) has discovered its seventeeth planet, aptly named WASP-17. Collaborating with the Geneva Observatory, the group located the giant planet that is twice the size of Jupiter ... continue