European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system — the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered around a star like the Sun. The planet was detected using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will appear online in the journal Nature on 17 October 2012.
Forty Students Will Travel To NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center For The Program
Forty community college students from across the United States have been selected to travel to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to participate in the 2012 National Community College Aerospace Scholars (CCAS) project. The three-day event Oct. 23-25 will feature a rover-building experience.
Last Shuttle To Fly In Space Will Arrive Nov. 2 At The Site Of Its Future $100 Million Exhibit
And then, there was one. The last time a space shuttle will ever move will be November 2nd, when Atlantis, the last orbiter to fly in space, will also be the last orbiter to be transported to its final resting place at a museum. And the last orbiter to move has the least distance to cover.
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