Shimmering 'Super-Earth' In Constellation Cassiopeia Discovered.

Located 21 light years away from us, this planet, dubbed HD219134 b, has a mass almost five times that of Earth, which is considered a so-called "super-Earth".

NASA Finds 10 'Earth-Like' Worlds

Astronomers using the Kepler space telescope have detected 219 possible new exoplanets in our galaxy, including 10 relatively small, rocky and possibly habitable planets similar to our own, NASA announced.

These are the last additions to the catalog of exoplanets compiled during the first phase of the Kepler mission, when the space telescope scanned some 200,000 stars in the Cygnus constellation in an effort to find worlds beyond our own. The official catalog now contains 4,034 total "candidates" - tiny blips in the data that are thought to signal the presence of a planet around a star. Of these, 49 fit squarely into their star's "habitable zone," that Goldilocks region where liquid water can pool on the surface and life may be able to thrive.

As 104 Satellites Were Launched, India's Rocket Shot Off This Selfie.

Rosetta captured image

A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft shortly before ending its remarkable 12-year journey with crash-landing on the comets surface on Friday. The final descent gave Rosetta the opportunity to study the comet's gas, dust and plasma environment very close to its surface, as well as take very high-resolution images, NASA said.

NASA's Juno to circle Jupiter for 'planetary recipe'

An artist's rendition released by NASA shows the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.
Now en route to Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun its five-year cruise to the giant planet.Juno is set for arrival at Jupiter in July 2016. The spacecraft will orbit the massive planet for about one year (33 orbits) and will end with de-orbit into the gaseous world.Juno roared off into Florida skies on Friday, August 5th.