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In 1995, astronomer/scientist Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz found the first discovered exoplanet. An exoplanet is a planet that is orbiting or is located outside our Solar system and could potentially pitch its own life. Today we’ll check out some of NASA’s top hits with Earth-like habitable exoplanets and see how they could hold life.

iss054e000136 (Dec. 14, 2017) --- The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft that brought home Expedition 53 crew members Randy Bresnik of NASA, Sergey Ryazanskiy of Roscosmos and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency, is pictured moments before undocking from the Rassvet module.

Picture of the Day 7/1/2019 - concept of a full-scale SpaceX's prototype stainless steel Starship; fan-art by Reddit user roow110.

This fantastic — or perhaps fantastical — image of a space shuttle launching through the clouds has been getting a lot of comments on the social media circuits. But is it real? No, it is a composite of two different images put together by photographer Richard Silvera. “The picture of the sky and clouds was … Continue reading "Incredible Space Shuttle Picture: Is it Real?"

By Emmet Cole, Wired UK Researchers from across Europe — with a little help from experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — are working on a new, robotic exploration system that could enable future Mars rovers to independently explore the planet’s surface, identifying geological and biological samples and performing their own terrain hazard analysis. Scientists […]