Exoplanet Kepler-452b: Closest Earth Twin in Pictures http://www.space.com/30027-exoplanet-kepler-452b-earth-twin-pictures.html
KIC-8462852: Space anomaly gets extraterrestrial intelligence experts' attention (CNN)The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute has its eyes -- and soon possibly one of the United States' premier telescopes -- focused on an anomaly that some astronomers can't quite explain. Users on the online astronomy crowdsourcing interface,Planet Hunters, discovered a peculiar light pattern between the Cygnus and Lyra constellations a few years ago. The group uses publicly available data gathered by NASA's Kepler Telescope, which has been tasked with finding Earth-like planets by searching for the periodic dimming of stars that might suggest such a planet is passing by.... http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/15/world/extraterrestrial-intelligence-anomaly/index.html
This is a spectacle to behold on a clear night: Five planets — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn — are all visible at once http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...lanets-morning-sky-january-february/78962134/
I don't care that it is cold. This is our last chance to have a planet called Vulcan. Hoth wouldn't be bad either. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techn...dge-of-the-solar-system/ar-BBotNpO?li=BBnb7Kz