Science at NASA: Exploring Planets in This Solar System and BeyondEllen StofanGSA today
LOS ANGELES, March 22 (Xinhua) -- More than 5,000 planets have been found to exist beyond the solar system, a milestone for astronomy confirmed by NASA on Monday. The 5,000-plus planets found so far include small, rocky worlds like Earth, gas giants many times larger than Jupiter, and...
NASA researchers on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of 1,284 new planets, including nine that could support life, nearly doubling the number of confirmed planets. Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA, said in a press release that the research on planets orbiting stars outside our solar system,...
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ASTERIA deployed from the ISS on November 20, 2017. Credit: NASA Mission operators atNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have lost contact with the ASTERIA satellite, a briefcase-sized spacecraft designed to study planets outside our solar system. The last succes...
According to NASA, around 5,000 impacts were detected over an 11 minute period as the spacecraft was pelted by fragments of dust and ice. Additional resources You can listen to a selection of sounds recorded in space, including the song of the sun and Cassini-Huygens passing through Saturn...
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. Credit: NASA Finding galactic nomads Roman will find rogue planets by conducting a large microlensing survey. Gravitational lensing is an obs...
1a) as well as to a three-axis flux-gate magnetometer built by NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center perched at the end of one of the Z-booms. Fig. 1 The DSX and Arase spacecraft and their fixed coordinate frames. A The DSX spacecraft consists of a payload module affixed to one side of ...
NASA discovers solar system with seven Earth-like planets, three of them in the star's habitable zone 'We've made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there': The potential for more Earth-size planets in our Milky Way galaxy is mind-boggling...