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New Exo-Planet Found In Habitable Zone 22 Light Years Away

An artist's conception of the alien planet GJ 667Cc

A team of scientists from Carnegie Institution of Washington and the University of California, Santa Cruz using data from the Kepler space telescope have identified a planet 22 light-years away that could possibly harbor life. The planets star is a member of a triple star system and has a different makeup than our Sun, being relatively lacking in metallic elements.This discovery demonstrates that habitable planets could form in a greater variety of environments than previously believed. The international team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler annoced their dicovery yesterday. The team used public data from...

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter. Opportunity is conducting regular radio Doppler tracking measurements to support geo-dynamic...

This video, originally shot back in July at TAM 2011 Las Vegas, is of a panel featuring Bill Nye, astronomers Neil DeGrasse Tyson & Pamela Gay, and theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss—and the entire discussion is moderated by Bad Astronomy‘s Phil Plait. The subjects raised...

An official map of the Phobos-Grunt reentry released by Roskosmos by 20:00 Moscow Time on Jan. 15, 2012.

A plausible scenario for quick demise of Phobos-Grunt leaked from industry sources to the online forum of the Novosti Kosmonavtiki magazine on January 17. The most likely culprit in...

Named 2012 BX34, this 14 meter space rock will skim Earth less than 60,000 km (37,000 miles, .0004 AU), at around 15:30 UTC, (10:30 am EST) according to the...

Left to right: Nia Shea Ashby, Zeth Ashby, and their mother Karson Ashby learn how to focus one of the NHAS’s loaner Orion StarBlast telescopes.

An astronomy club’s outreach program gets telescopes into peoples’ hands. “The strongest thing that’s given us to see with’s a telescope. Someone in every town seems to me owes...