Located 21 light years away from us, this planet, dubbed HD219134 b, has a mass almost five times that of Earth, which is considered a so-called "super-Earth".
The research suggests that the sugar molecule that puts the "D" in DNA -- 2-deoxyribose -- could exist in the far reaches of space.
Winter solstice 2018: December 21, Friday is the shortest day of the year 2018. The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere when the sun appears at its most southerly position, directly overhead at the Tropic of Capricorn.
New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian dusk, according to the InSight team on Thursday.
A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Sergey Prokopyev and German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency landed on the snow-covered steppes in Kazakhstan.
Simulating in the lab the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system, researchers from the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland successfully created both organic compounds and oxygen, absent of life.
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery on Monday.
To this day, that 1968 mission is considered to be NASA's boldest and perhaps most dangerous undertaking. That first voyage by humans to another world set the stage for the still grander Apollo 11 moon landing seven months later.
The mission life of the GSAT-7A, built by the Indian Space Research Organisation, is eight years.
Scientists have long wondered if Saturn was formed with the rings or if the planet acquired them later in life.
“Farout” is about 120 astronomical units away — that’s 120 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, or 11 billion miles.
Many of the footprints -- which range in size from less than two cm to over 60 cm across -- are so well-preserved that fine detail of skin, scales and claws is easily visible.
In 2013, Russia introduced a six-hour route to the International Space Station, consisting of four orbits.
The main object, referred to as MM 1a, is a young massive star surrounded by a rotating disc of gas and dust that was the focus of the scientists' original investigation.
This is not the first time HiRISE has photographed a Mars lander. InSight is based largely on 2008's Phoenix spacecraft, which the camera aboard MRO captured on the surface of Mars as well as descending on its parachute.
First discovered by astronomer Carl Wirtanen in 1948, 46P/Wirtanen, with a width of 1.1 kilometres, orbits the Sun fairly quickly for a comet — once every 5.4 years — making it a short-period comet.
Owing to bad weather, Rocket Lab was forced to postpone the earlier decided launch on December 12.
German naval records recovered after the war revealed that U-boat 156 had sailed just off the coast of New York, planting explosives.
Humans have unusually globular (or round) skulls and brains compared to our ancient ancestors including our closest extinct cousins -- the Neanderthals, and a new study from Germany provides a possible explanation as to why, CNN reported on Friday.
The agency plans to send humans to the Moon using a system of three separate elements that will provide transfer, landing, and safe return.
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