Several planets found orbiting star less than 6 light-years away
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...
A geologic map of the asteroid belt: Tracing meteorites back to their origins
Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...
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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...
NASA’s EZIE Mission Launches to Uncover Earth’s Electric Secrets
Blasting off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA’s EZIE mission is on a groundbreaking journey to unravel the mysteries of auroral ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
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NASA’s SPHEREx mission: Mapping skies and universe origins
The SPHEREx space telescope embarked on its mission from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carried by SpaceX's ...
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The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’
Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...
NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
NASA has launched the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to ...
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NASA, SpaceX launch SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH heliophysics...
SpaceX and NASA successfully launched the agency’s newest space telescope and solar research mission Tuesday evening. A ...