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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Einstein Proven Correct; Gravitational Waves Detected; Super Hot Planet
Posted June 8th, 2017 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
Einstein Theory Confirmed Again In his 1915 Theory of General Relativity, physicist Albert Einstein proposed that mass can bend space time. And he predicted that when a distant star’s light passed by a large object en route to the observer, the object’s gravity can bend and brighten the starlight like a magnifying lens. This effect, called […]
May 2017 – Science Images
Posted June 1st, 2017 at 6:11 pm (UTC-4)
#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 […]
Solar System Mimics Ours; The Big Empty; Closest Human Relative?
Posted May 3rd, 2017 at 5:33 pm (UTC-4)
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Nearby Planetary System Mimics our Solar System A group of scientists using NASA’s airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy or SOFIA recently completed a study that confirmed their previous findings of a young and nearby planetary system. The researchers found that the system surrounding the star Epsilon Eridani, which is about 10.5 light years away […]
Space Junk Jeopardizes Earth’s Space Environment
Posted April 24th, 2017 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
Scientists estimate that there are some 750,000 pieces of space junk circling Earth, millions more if you count fragments smaller than 1 centimeter. Think about it: Mankind has sent thousands of rockets into space since the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik 1, in 1957. While a number of space vehicles are still in active […]
New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?
Posted April 4th, 2017 at 3:45 pm (UTC-4)
New Horizons Halfway to Next Flyby Destination NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided scientists an amazing once in a lifetime look at the distant dwarf planet Pluto as it flew by it in July 2015. Along with spectacular images of Pluto the spacecraft also sent back those of Pluto’s five moons including high definition shots of […]
March 2017 Science Images
Posted March 31st, 2017 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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