Today, NASA’s Kepler mission identified the first promising candidate of “Earth 2.0”, aka a planet that might be able to sustain life as we know it. The exoplanet is approximately 60% larger than our Earth, and is called Kepler-452b (real catchy name). The exact mass and composition have yet to be determined, but research suggests …
On Sunday night, an asteroid with a core containing platinum said to be worth $5 trillion passed within 1.5 million miles of Earth, as researchers drooled over the possibility of one day mining space for valuable minerals, according to Forbes. The first detailed images of Asteroid 2011 UW158 were released last week by Puerto Rico’s …
Scientists have found a new winged, feathered dinosaur. Named Zhengyuanlong, or “Zhengyuan’s dragon” after the man who obtained the fossil for study, the 6 ft., 6 in. long beast was an ancestor of the velociraptor. Though Zhengyuanlong was flightless, it is believed to be a precursor to the modern bird. The dinosaur was found in …
A day after New Horizons first successful flyby, images have returned to us revealing ice mountains up to 11,000 ft high on Pluto’s surface. Absence of craters means that the surface is relatively young, no more than 100 million years old. Other images taken include this high res image of Charon, Pluto’s largest moon. According to NBCNews: The scientists …
Pluto has successfully phoned home. At exactly, 8:52:37 P.M. EDT At 9:30 EDT, NASA held a briefing. This is just the beginning of images and data that we will see over the next few days, months even. Tomorrow at 3 P.M. EDT, NASA will hold another briefing discussing more of what the spacecraft sent back. …