The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than the rule for exoplanets.
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A breathtaking new image captures the Crystal Ball Nebula, the remains of a dying star found in the constellation Taurus.
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NASA will give an update on Tuesday afternoon (May 26) about its plans to build a moon base, and you can watch it live.
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“The evidence for water vapor plumes on Europa isn’t as strong as we first understood it.”
Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed a cloudy morning dissipating to leave a clear sky by dusk on a distant hot Jupiter.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has stumbled across an unusual sight: a stack of rocks on the Martian surface.
TESS has released its most complete view of the sky over Earth, revealing the location of 6,000 potential worlds beyond the solar system.
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An international team of researchers say they’ve found a more efficient route from Earth to the moon using advanced computer modeling.
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Neptune’s moon Nereid might be the only satellite surviving from the planet’s original system, researchers report in a new study.
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Using nearly a decade of satellite observations, NASA’s Black Marble project reveals a constantly shifting portrait of human nighttime activity visible from space.
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