Planets - Page 72

April 28, 2016

Pluto's blue bands get high-resolution makeover

Pluto's blue bands shine spectacularly in the highest-resolution image yet of the dwarf planet's atmosphere.

April 28, 2016

How astronomers could actually see 'Planet Nine'

If Planet Nine really exists, astronomers have a pretty decent chance of spotting it.

April 28, 2016

NASA's Kepler comes roaring back with 100 new exoplanet finds

NASA's Kepler spacecraft has bounced back nicely from the malfunction that ended its original exoplanet hunt more than two years ago.

April 28, 2016

New film 'A Beautiful Planet' offers stunning views of Earth

The new film “A Beautiful Planet” looks to give audiences a view of Earth like never before – the movie features footage captured by astronauts on the International Space Station and is shown in IMAX and IMAX 3D.

April 26, 2016

Alien hunters claim Venus has buildings

Space might very well be considered the “final frontier,” but according to alien hunters, intelligent life on Venus includes cities for its inhabitants.

April 13, 2016

1917 glass plate offers oldest evidence of exoplanetary system

Scientists have found the oldest-known manmade evidence of an exoplanetary system— and it’s been sitting in a basement for almost a century on a piece of glass.

April 11, 2016

NASA races to save planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft

NASA is trying to resuscitate its planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, in a state of emergency nearly 75 million miles away.

April 11, 2016

NASA: Saturn probe unaffected by hypothetical Planet Nine

NASA has nixed reports that its Cassini spacecraft is experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around Saturn caused by the hypothetical Planet Nine.

April 7, 2016

Exploding stars leave radioactive clues beneath Earth's oceans

During the past 10 million years, a series of stars in the Earth’s neighborhood exploded, raining a radioactive form of iron onto our planet that left its signature in the material beneath the world’s oceans.

March 30, 2016

Did an asteroid slam into Jupiter?

If something slams into Jupiter and two strangers a thousand miles away from each other film it, does it count?