Scientists are seeking clues to what is life in the extrasolar planets, they are studying various biosignatures found in the light spectrum leaking out to earth to speculate on something more basic and essential than the musical expertise of Droopy McCool.What they are concerned with is to what kind of photosynthesis might occur on such [...]

A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch — a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. A team of two astronomers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has, for the past 12 years, been mounting an astrometry instrument to a telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego. [...]

A “bonanza” of new planets has been found at the heart of our galaxy, NASA astronomers according to the NASA astronomers.
In the region known as the Galactic Bulge, sixteen potential planets have been detected. The mass of stars and hot gas at the center of the Milky Way some 26,000 light-years away. Of the 16 [...]

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Mission controllers for NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander decided Saturday afternoon, May 24, to forgo the second-to-last opportunity for adjusting the spacecraft’s flight path.

The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander is on track to land on the red planet tonight at around 8pm EST. Update: Phoenix has landed and sent first photos from Mars The NASA TV online video channel already starts the live coverage of the Phoenix landing a…

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NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars Sunday to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm.

Sun, May 25, 2008 (5:12 p.m.) NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has begun a dangerous descent through the Martian atmosphere toward a landing near the north pole.

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars successfully today. Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touc…