The image above is an artist’s conception of the probable planet orbiting a star called GJ 411. (Ricardo Ramirez) At a Glance Researchers have discovered more than 100 new planets. One of the planets is a hot "super-Earth" with a rocky surface. An international team of researchers has discovered 114 new planets, including a "super-Earth" and 60 others that could support life. After observing data from a 20-year long survey, and 54 planet candidates that still need follow-up research, according...

A planet described as a “Super Earth” and others have been discovered in the fourth-nearest star system to ours. ...

A monster black hole makes a decade-long meal out of a star twice as big as our sun. ...

At a Glance A total solar eclipse will cross the United States on Aug. 21.It will be the first total eclipse in the U.S. in four decades and the first coast-to-coast eclipse in a century.Scientists offer suggestions on how to best view this once-in-a-lifetime event. In just six months, Americans will have the opportunity to experience the in nearly four decades. On Aug. 21, the "Great American Total Solar Eclipse" will mesmerize Americans across a 70-mile path from coast to...

At a Glance SpaceX brought NASA's historic moonshot launch pad back in to business with a recent launch. The pad was used for NASA's flight to the moon nearly a half-century ago. Sunday morning a SpaceX rocket soared from NASA's long-idled moonshot pad. The projective is delivering space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a half-century ago. It was the first flight from NASA's legendary Launch Complex 39A since the shuttle program...

The Dragon spacecraft will deliver critical cargo to the International Space Station for NASA. ...

The most distant exoplanet spotted to date is OGLE-05-390L b. More than 21,000 light-years away, it plods around its star, taking 3,500 days to complete one orbit. It’s five times the mass of Earth. (NASA) NASA will hold a press conference Wednesday to announce new findings on exoplanets, accordingto apress release from the space agency. The event will air live as officials go into , states the release. No further detail on the findings was given, but in recent months...

NASA To Unveil Planetary News. ...

In the image above, the record-breaking pulsar identified as NGC 5907 X-1 is in the spiral galaxy NGC 5907, which is also known as the Knife Edge Galaxy or Splinter Galaxy. The image comprises X-ray emission data (blue/white) from ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (galaxy and foreground stars). (ESA/XMM-Newton; NASA/Chandra and SDSS) At a Glance A pulsar identified as NGC 5907 X-1 is the brightest, most furthest...

In this photo taken Feb. 17, 2017, the Apollo 11 capsule sits in the restoration hanger at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, ahead of a planned four-city tour. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko) The Apollo 11 command module, which traveled more than 950,000 miles to take three Americans to the moon and back in 1969, will take its first tour of the United States in more than 40 years. The famed carried Neil Armstrong,...

At a Glance Astronomers have discovered seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.Three of these planets are in what is called the "habitable" zone.Located in the TRAPPIST-1 star system, the planets are some 40 light years away in the Aquarius constellation. Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found a new solar system filled with seven Earth-like planets surrounding a single star, three of which might be habitable, the agency announced Wednesday. The three planets are located in what is...

The Southern Hemisphere enjoyed the first of 2 solar eclipses arriving in 2017. ...

A test of a NASA rocket engine in Mississippi ends with a rainbow over clouds of test-generated steam. ...