The astronomy community has been really excited lately after a planet with potential Earth-like properties has been discovered. The best part about it is that the “super-Earth” orbits a relatively near star. The planet, tagged as GJ 667Cc, is found going around a M-class dwarf star (GJ 667C) located 22 light years away and is believed to be around 4.5 times bigger than our Earth. This solid piece of h...

A group of astronomers, using data compiled from NASA’s Kepler mission, have discovered three alien planets smaller than Earth, all of which orbiting a star much smaller than our Sun. The planets, which are orbiting a red dwarf star named KOI-961, have 0.78, 0.73, and 0.57 times the diameter of Earth. These alien planets are the smallest discovered so far. The KOI-961 star is located 120 light years away and...

A group of astronomers has reported that they have observed a rain of methane for the first time over the equatorial region of Titan, the largest moon on Saturn. Although clouds and rain have been spotted on Titan before, rains are only present over the poles and not along the equatorial region Compared to Earth’s tropical climate along equator, Titan’s equatorial region is covered in dunes and has a ...

NASA and its top scientists are disputing claims of a space agency researcher that he has found remnants of alien bacteria in meteorites that were collected several decades ago. Richard Hoover of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, concludes that the fossils found in at least two meteorites appear to be remnants of bacteria that must have come from outer space. His research was publi...

Hours ago, three astronauts set foot on a dark, sand-filled room that is meant to simulate Mars. These explorers are among the six men–three Russians, two Europeans, and one Chinese–who make up the Mars500 mission, which is designed to study the psychological effects of a year-and-a-half long voyage to Mars. The six-man crew, all of them are volunteers, have been living in isolation inside a 550-cubic...