Last month, NASA released a series of vintage travel posters depicting three of the nearly 5,000 planets found by space telescopes outside our solar system. The release may celebrate NASA marking a recent milestone – Kepler telescope has spotted its 1,000th exoplanet. In those bright colored posters, NASA seems to invite space travelers to visit the three extra solar planets, or exoplanets. … [Read more...]
Kepler Space Telescope Finds Eight Exoplanets – NASA Marks Milestone
During the annual winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, NASA officials announced that Kepler space telescope discovered eight more exoplanets. With this event, NASA reached a historic milestone of the 1,000th newly verified exoplanet during its Kepler mission. Kepler has been hunting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, since June 2014. But on January 6, NASA marked Kepler’s … [Read more...]
Discovery of Alien life beyond Earth in 20 year!
Scientists may be closer to discover alien life beyond the Earth, and they say it may happen within two decades. Two leading scientists related to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have recently told the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology in Washington D.C. that there is huge chances of discovering alien life within 20 years. Along with exoplanets, there is also a … [Read more...]