In Trappist-1 world, the planets are so close together that life forms can hop between them. Scientists believe the planets named Trappist-1 'e', 'f' and 'g' have the essential elements to support life.
Saturn's moon Pan was discovered on July 16, 1990, by Mark Showalter from Stanford University. Its name was derived from the half-man and half-goat satyr, a character from Greek mythology.
NASA update an additional info about their latest discovery of the largest batch of seven habitat planets orbited around an ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1.
Adding to the tally of last year's 3 Earth like planets, NASA discovered 4 more such planets. The latest finding revives the search for life beyond our planet.
Researchers claim that hydrogen pouring from the volcanoes may be used to find the possibility of life in the universe. Planets with such volcanoes are likely to support life.
The 60 planets include a rocky planet which is later then called "Super Earth." Gliese 411b caught the attention of Dr. Mikko Tuomi from the University of Herdfordshire's Center for Astrophysics because of its unusual identity.
NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft is already on target for an historic rendezvous with Pluto in July, but while it travels it continues to snap new images of the little dwarf planet. The new images reveal even more detail about its complex and high contrast surface.
If you spend enough time on the surface of the Red Planet, you will be treated to something very different from Earth - a blue sunset as night falls. That's exactly what happened to NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover after waiting for three years to catch a glimpse of this phenomenon.
NASA Administrator and senior science advisor to President Obama, Charles Bolden told attendees at The Humans to Mars Summit in Washington that "Mars matters."
May is shaping up to be one of the best months of 2015 for sky gazers and amateur astronomers across the world with planet watching and meteor showers just some of the highlights of what will be available to see in the night sky.