
An new, nearby exoplanet may be the most habitable yet!

An new, nearby exoplanet may be the most habitable yet!

Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories in space and astronomy news.

Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered a Tatooine-like planet with two suns.

This week’s space news round-up includes a magma ocean, hot Jupiters and the hunt for Earth-like exoplanets…

The Kepler mission is already providing diverse data on exoplanets– might it also find life?

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

Freaks, Exoplanets and Sea Urchins: Here are some headlines we didn’t want you to miss this week.

Gambling pigeons, baseball, oil spill and the existence of Gliese 581g: Here are some science news stories we didn’t want you to miss this week.

NASA announced yesterday that the Keck 1 Telescope potentially found a rocky planet in the habitable zone.
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