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“Hellish Landscape” of Jupiter’s Moon Io Enhances Case for Life on the Planet’s Icy Moons
Cornell University astronomers studying Jupiter's moon Io say tidal heating may help support life in the oceans of Jupiter's ...
Webb telescope is about to home in on these 2 exoplanets. Here's why.
The James Webb Space Telescope and its legacy partner Hubble will hunt for a rocky exoplanet with air around a red dwarf star ...
As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...
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What’s Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? NASA’s Unexpected New Discovery
This discovery suggests the presence of a potential second Kuiper Belt and challenges existing models of solar system ...
Earth will get a second moon this month — but not for long
Earth's orbit will capture a bus-sized asteroid later this month, giving us a second moon for about two months.
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
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Exoplanets may be hiding behind the 'Neptunian ridge'
"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...
NASA convinced an American author we’ll find life on another planet — in next 25 years
NASA convinced an American author we’ll find life on another planet — in next 25 years - Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers ...
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When Will That Star Dim? Amateur Planet-Chasers Got You!
A planet swings in front of its star, dimming the starlight we see. Events like these, called transits, provide us with ...
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NASA Develops Process to Create Very Accurate Eclipse Maps
New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s ...
'Spiders' on Mars? NASA scientists recreate mysterious Red Planet formations
Dubbed "araneiform terrain," the Mars surface formations span over a half-mile long and have hundreds of branches that ...