The Kepler space-telescope has so far discovered more than a thousand new exoplanets. And SETI-researchers has allready scanned these new worlds for alien signals and even found a few candidates for extra-terrestial signals. The results are however not conclusive, and could be terrestial interference, but still... (Ill.: KOI 812)

Source: Seti section at Berkley University

ESA has announced the date of the first launch of their new Vega rocket: Feb 9 2011. The Vega launcher is a small inexpensive rocket designet to launch cargoes up to a few tonnes into orbit

Source: ESA

Star formations comes in many different sizes and shapes: Small and large stars are formed from in a variety of different environments. But why and how? A new research concludes that even-thoigh the results looks very different, the basic rules are allways the same!

An exceptional large galaxy cluster in the early universe 7,6 bio years after Big Bang has been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile.

Astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early Universe.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, that caused a supernova in a nearby galaxy in 1987. The finding yields new observational data for pinpointing one of several scenarios that could trigger such outbursts.