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The article discusses a study by Bill Chaplin and his colleagues which analyzed data gathered by U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Kepler Mission space telescope. Topics discussed include the assessment made by the team on Kepler-444's age, the finding by Kepler of multiplanet systems around other stars, and the indication of the immense age of the Keppler-444 system.

The article discusses how Nimbus-1, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) first environmental satellite in the mid-1960s, could have captured images of sea ice, according to researchers at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center. Topics mentioned include the team's scanning of the long-lost film canisters in 2009 using sophisticated software, the first image taken by Nimbus-1 on August 31, 1964, and the other functions of the data recovery project.

The article reports on the discovery by scientists of three planets circling a star dubbed Kepler-30 using data gathered by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Kepler spacecraft. One planet orbits the star every 29 days while the other two orbit the star every 60 days and 143 days respectively. Analysis revealed a huge, dark starspot on Kepler-30. The planes of those orbits are found to be closely aligned with the rotational plane of the parent star.