NASA’s Kepler Mission has identified thousands of exoplanets but leaves a lot of questions about alien worlds.
- Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
JAXA has announced a mission to visit the two moons of Mars and return a rock sample to Earth.
Scientists have discovered seven Earth-sized planets packed around a dim star.
Signé Winston Churchill, un article visionnaire sur la recherche de la vie extraterrestre vient de sortir de l’ombre.
Churchill allowed science to flourish. Without a similar attitude in today’s politics, we may hit a bottleneck for life that leaves a Universe without a single human soul to enjoy it.
The universe looks very different with X-ray vision, revealing some of the most energetic interactions in our galaxy. Japan’s new Hitomi telescope will help us see these wonders.
Why the new exoplanet said to resemble out Earth might just as well resemble Venus or Neptune.
Researchers have created a star-forming cloud in the laboratory to try to recreate the first-ever biological molecule. The study could explain why such molecules are left-handed.
At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society earlier this month, the NASA Kepler Space Telescope team announced its 1,000th discovery of a planet outside our solar system. This brings the…
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to land on comet 67P was one of the most audacious in space history. The idea of landing on a small chunk of icy rock 300m kilometres away from Earth and hurtling…
In June, the popular press went wild. A planet had been discovered that was so much like Earth it was heralded as our best bet for supporting life. Positioned 16 light years away, Gliese (or GJ) 832c was…
The current theory of star formation has a problem: it cannot make big stars. In the standard star-making recipe, stars are formed in the depths of gas clouds made from molecular hydrogen. These clouds…
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