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When thinking about the old Soviet space program, people usually remember its long history of crewed space missions or its somewhat checkered lunar and planetary programs […]
Now that we are at the end of 2015, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
It has turned out that 2015 has been a banner year for the search for potentially habitable planets. It started on January 6 at a meeting […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets two decades ago, astronomers expected that the architecture of our Solar System was typical – a more or […]
Without a doubt, the most prolific planet hunter has got to be NASA’s Kepler mission. Launched into solar orbit on March 7, 2009, Kepler spent four […]
Note: An updated review of Wolf 359 can be found in “The Real Wolf 359 Revisited – New Planetary Discoveries“. Over the past couple of […]
The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler mission is to detect Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars in Earth-like orbits. While the ongoing analysis of the huge amount […]
I still have a clear memory of waiting in anticipation of the premier episode of the now classic sci-fi television show, Lost in Space, which first […]
Back when I was growing up in the heyday of the Apollo program, all young space enthusiasts like myself knew about NASA’s trio of unmanned lunar […]
In recent years it seems that NASA regularly extends the missions of its long-lived planetary spacecraft sometimes far beyond their original primary missions. The armada of […]
With a V magnitude of -1.46, Sirius is by far the brightest star in our nighttime sky. Located in the constellation of Canis Major (the Greater […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets, the only planetary system we could study was our own Solar System. Based on centuries of study, astronomers […]
