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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
Celebrate Mars New Year Now Because The Next One Won’t Come Until 2026
Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of ...
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Earth from space: Giant 'phantom lake' dotted with stripy gold islands shimmers in Australian outback
A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Rare space event made us think all the wrong things about this solar system planet
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
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NASA Installs Roman Space Telescope's Planet-Hunting Coronagraph
The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...
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Pando, the world's largest organism, may have been growing nonstop since the 1st humans left Africa, study suggests
Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...
Real story behind Mars' 'otherworldly' wreckage captured by NASA probe
The images of the 'saucer' were caught by a NASA helicopter orbiting Mars, with experts on the technology used to snap it ...
NASA’s new £2.6bn telescope that's about to look for ‘alien life’ in planets deep in space
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument provides a field of view 100 times greater than the Hubble ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.
Scientists have fiercely debated the existence of ‘Planet 9’ for a decade. Some say evidence is piling up
After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...
Strong Evidence That 'Snowball Earth' Was a Global Event
Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...