geology McAfee SECURE sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams

Geology News
Earth Science Current Events


The Smallest Planet
February 22, 2013 | NASA

NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.” Quoted from the NASA press release.


  Related Stories

Three Smallest Exoplanets
January 12, 2012 | NASA
"Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected...

Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
October 30, 2012 | NASA
"The average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest...

Kepler Discovers New Planetary Systems
January 26, 2012 | NASA
"NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries...

A New Class of Planets
January 24, 2012 | San Diego State University
"Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary"...

More Planets in the Habitable Zone
April 19, 2013 | NASA
"NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in...

World’s Smallest Vertebrate
January 11, 2012 | MSNBC
Paedophryne amanuensis, a tiny frog found in Papua New Guinea has been judged to be...

Solar Eclipse Video (7 seconds)
May 22, 2012 | NASA Flickr
"The joint JAXA/NASA Hinode mission captured this video of an annular eclipse of the Sun...

Saturn Storm Chokes on its Own Tail
January 31, 2013 | NASA
"In a new paper that provides the most detail yet about the life and death...


Every day you can find links to several earth science news topics right here. Bookmark this page and visit often. You can also receive our news for free by RSS feed or in a daily email message.





© 2005-2013 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved.
Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.