Tagged: exploration

New NASA study finds dramatic acceleration in sea level rise

According to new research, global sea level isn’t rising steadily — it’s getting faster every year. The findings, which came from an analysis of 25 years’ worth of satellite data, are bad news for all low-lying regions threatened by the encroaching ocean: It may rise...

NASA’s Kepler Mission Adds 100 Alien Worlds to Exoplanet Tally

An exoplanet orbits in front of its star. The first exoplanets were detected in the 1990s. It has since become evident that planets around other stars are common and there are likely hundreds of billions of exoplanets in the Milky Way alone. NASA/JPL-CALTECH Astronomers analyzing...

The Farthest Pictures From Earth Ever Taken

The image of a Kuiper Belt object that NASA’s New Horizons space probe took from 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers) away from Earth. NASA.GOV NASA’s New Horizons space probe was launched in 2006 on a mission to gather information about Pluto and its moons...

Aliens could be purple, new study says

Alien life might be purple. That’s the conclusion of a new research paper that suggests that the first life on Earth might have had a lavender hue. In the International Journal of Astrobiology, microbiologist Shiladitya DasSarma of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and...