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Earlier this week, the discovery of a pair of planets orbiting the nearby Kapteyn’s Star was announced [1, 2]. While such announcements go largely unnoticed nowadays […]
Six years ago the discovery of the fifth planet known to orbit 55 Cancri A (abbreviated 55 Cnc A and also known as ρ1 Cancri A) […]
The announcement of the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting inside the habitable zone of the distant red dwarf star designated Kepler 186 has resulted in […]
There seems to have been increasing interest in the last decade or more in microsatellites (small satellites with masses in the 10 to 100 kg range), […]
In the just-published April 2014 issue of Sky & Telescope is an article detailing the results announced at the January American Astronomical Society meeting on some […]
A couple of weeks ago the Obama Administration released its proposed budget for FY2015. NASA’s budget (which is almost certainly subject to change by Congress as […]
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