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NASA Fails To Fully Recover Kepler Telescope, Thinking New Mission

International space agency NASA’s space telescope Kepler has been hunting Earth-like planets in space since it reached there. Although NASA expected that Kepler would work fine until 2016, malfunction occurred. Since then NASA had been trying to solve the issues. But last Thursday the agency confirmed that it failed to “fully recover Kepler spacecraft” and now is planning “new missions” instead Kepler.

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NASA Kepler Malfunction May End Hunt For New Earth-Like Planets

NASA Kepler Malfunction May End Hunt For New Earth-Like Planets

NASA launched its Kepler space telescope on 7 March, 2009. After reaching to space, the telescope has found three new planets that may contain water and suggested that nearly a quarter of all Sun-like stars in our galaxy host Earth size planets. But yesterday NASA announced that Kepler has been shut down by the failure of one of the reaction wheels that keep it pointed.

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Hawaii Approves Construction Of World’s Largest Optical Telescope

Hawaii Approves Construction Of World’s Largest Optical Telescope

One of the important instruments that helps astronomers to discover the space more accurately is telescope. The good news is last Friday, Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources approved the construction of the world’s largest optical telescope called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in the territory. This telescope will be able to image objects 13 billion light years away, near the beginning of time!

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NASA Created 3D Model Of Dark Matter

NASA Created 3D Model Of Dark Matter

Although science and technology have advanced tremendously, dark matter is still supposed to be one of the most critical things in the realm of astronomy and cosmology. But what the hell is dark matter? Well, it is a type of matter hypothesized to account for a large part of the total mass in the universe. The interesting thing is dark matter is invisible and therefore it can’t be seen directly even with the world’s most powerful telescope. But the invisibility of dark matter couldn’t stop NASA from creating a sharp 3D map of this mysterious substance.

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Milky Way And Andromeda Galaxies Are Destined For Head-on Collision: NASA

Milky Way And Andromeda Galaxies Are Destined For Head-on Collision: NASA

NASA astronomers announced on Thursday that our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy is destined to get a major makeover during the encounter, which is predicted to happen four billion years from now. The sun will be flung into a new region of our galaxy, but our Earth and solar system are in no danger of being destroyed.

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The Best New Space Pictures

The Best New Space Pictures

Stars glitter like dew on a cosmic rose in a new picture of interacting galaxies, released to celebrate the 21st birthday of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the picture shows the mirrors being prepped for cryogenic testing at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.he space shuttle Discovery deployed Hubble into orbit on April 24, 1990 and the infrared telescope will be 930,000 miles (1,500,000 kilometers) from Earth and will work at temperatures as cold as -390 degrees F (-234 degrees C)…………

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Amateur Astronomer Catches Meteor Collision On Jupiter

Amateur Astronomer Catches Meteor Collision On Jupiter

A meteor smacked into Jupiter this Friday, and it was caught by an amateur Japanese astronomer. A similar meteor impact on Jupiter took place less than three months ago, and another one so soon hints that our gas giant neighbor may be experiencing shooting stars more frequently than scientists thought, and that it’s just a case of looking in the right place at the right time.

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NASA releases some data on possible planets

NASA releases some data on possible planets

NASA's Kepler Mission has identified more than 750 possible extrasolar planets after monitoring more than 156,000 stars. But it's keeping the best data back. The Kepler space observatory looks for…

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