NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler mission recently released what it calls the most comprehensive and detailed catalog of candidate exoplanets. Exoplanets or extrasolar planets are planetary bodies that exist outside of our solar system. The new and final Kepler catalog from data gathered from the spacecraft’s initial patch of sky view within the Cygnus constellation includes 219 […]
Kepler Discovers More Exoplanets / Scientists Classify Types of Planets
Posted June 22nd, 2017 at 10:29 am (UTC-4)
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#1 Cause of Death; More Sleep=Less Pain?; Look Younger – Don’t Smile
Posted May 17th, 2017 at 2:30 pm (UTC-4)
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Cardiovascular Disease #1 Cause of World’s Deaths A new 25 year global study suggests cardiovascular diseases is now the cause of one third of all deaths throughout the world. The study reports that in 2015 nearly 18 million people worldwide died from this family of illnesses, which includes heart attack, congestive heart failure, coronary artery […]
Insight Into Planetary Evolution – Dark Matter Rare in Old Galaxies
Posted March 17th, 2017 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Scientists Gain New Insight into Planetary Evolution Scientists recently gained new insight into the evolution of planet formation by creating and studying a model of a fairly young solar system 300 light years from Earth. The nearly 13 million year-old planetary system circles a star known as HD 106906. The system features a surrounding planet […]
Ants Goof Off Too; Milky Way Steals Stars; Astronomers Spot Exocomets
Posted January 16th, 2017 at 1:12 pm (UTC-4)
Ants Balance Work and Rest to Maintain Colony Ants have a reputation of being dedicated and hardworking creatures. But did you know that like humans, ants also seek to maintain a healthy balance of work and rest? While an ant colony appears to be filled with busy workers, according to new research, there are also […]
Advanced Weather Satellite in Space; Can Migraines Lead to Stroke?
Posted November 21st, 2016 at 4:21 pm (UTC-4)
NASA Launches NOAA’S Advanced Weather Satellite On Saturday, 11/19/16, NASA launched the first of four advanced weather satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellite will maintain a geostationary orbit nearly 36,000 kilometers above Earth’s western hemisphere. Called the Geostationary Operational Environmental […]
Oxygen on Exoplanet; Smaller Universe; Intergalactic Tan
Posted August 19th, 2016 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
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Nearby Exoplanet’s Atmosphere May Contain Oxygen In November 2015, scientists discovered a Venus-like planet that’s only 39 light years away, called Gliese 1132b. The planet is thought to have an atmosphere, despite having a blistering temperature of more than 230° degrees Celsius, since it orbits its red dwarf star from a distance of only 2.25 […]
Black Hole Back Doors?; Io’s Atmosphere; No New Stars in Galaxy Center
Posted August 5th, 2016 at 3:50 pm (UTC-4)
Do Black Holes Have Back Doors? Most people describe a black hole as a cosmic object with gravity so strong that it sucks in any kind of material that comes close to it. What happens to stuff that is pulled into a black hole? Some scientists think that matter that enters a black hole gets […]
Space Snow Spotted; Frankenstein Galaxy; Fewer Allergies for Thumb Suckers
Posted July 13th, 2016 at 4:00 pm (UTC-4)
Astronomers Spot Snow Circling New Star For the first time, astronomers have been able to get a glimpse of a water “snowline” in a protoplanetary disk, which is the material surrounding a new star that may later form into planets. This water “snowline” marks the point within these left overs of star formation where the temperature […]