The Latest: NASA Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Rockets Away
US News & World Report6 days agoNASA's newest planet-hunting spacecraft rockets away.
Science Festival will take visitors around the world from Hemet museum
The Press-Enterprise11 hours agoThe Riverside Astronomical Society will set up solar telescopes in the courtyard. Cogstone Resource Management will display fossils from L.A. Metro’s Purple Line Extension subway excavations ...
The quantum internet has arrived (and it hasn’t)
Nature3 hours agoBefore she became a theoretical physicist, Stephanie Wehner was a hacker. A few years later, while working as a network-security specialist, Wehner went to university. There, she learnt that ...
Astronomical society opens observatory in Central Illinois
Houston Chronicle3 days agoThe larger facility is now handicapped-accessible and will house the society's four telescopes. The telescopes are motorized meaning researchers can look at more object in a shorter ...
The Planet That Took Us Beyond the Solar System
MSN News6 days agoAn unusual discovery in the 1990s paved the way for space telescopes to spot thousands of exoplanets.
NASA’s new planet finder is in space. Now what?
Ars Technica1 day agoThe TESS cameras are attached to refracting telescopes with very short focal lengths (146 mm, in fact).
Nasa planet-hunter set for launch
BBC News7 days agoTess will build a catalogue of nearby, bright stars and their planets that other telescopes can then follow up. Key among these will be the successor to Hubble - the James Webb space ...
Star parties set for this weekend in Kanawha, Harrison counties
The Charleston Gazette7 days agoFree public astronomy events taking place in West Virginia this weekend include stargazing with professional-quality telescopes at Camp Virgil Tate in Kanawha County and in an inflatable ...
Voices of the Peninsula: Thoughts and observations on Earth Day
Peninsula Clarion9 hours ago“Observe and contemplate,’’ says Madeleine L’Engle, and so did a small band of planetgazers on March 25th, shivering around two telescopes positioned in the parking area of the Challenger ...
SpaceX launches Nasa's new TESS satellite in search for planets with potential alien life
The Sun5 days agoSPACEX has tonight launched Nasa's new satellite which is searching for Earth-like planets outside the solar system - with potential alien life. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida's ...