New ‘Baby’ Planet, Less Than 1 Million Years Old, Breaks Four-Way Tie to Claim Title of Youngest Known Planet: ‘This Is Just the Beginning’

The exoplanet, known as Elias 2-24 b, is about the size of Jupiter — and it’s still forming ...

Scientists traced a mysterious signal to a distant planet in a historic first

A planet far beyond our solar system is making headlines after scientists detected radio waves coming directly from it for ...
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Under Nevada’s dark skies, WNC students look toward new astronomy era with NASA’s Roman space telescope

NASA’s newest space telescope could spend nearly the next two dozen years changing what we know about the universe, from the ...
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First Exoplanet radio signals detected

For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals coming directly from a planet outside our solar system, according ...

Private spacecraft falls back to Earth after failing to rescue aging NASA telescope

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope plunged back to Earth on ...

Webb detects ammonia and unexpected chill on a distant giant planet

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers led by the University of Maryland identified water, ...
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Scientists have discovered new heat-resistant amoeba—and it could help find alien life

Certain fungi and algae are known to survive extreme heat, but this newly discovered amoeba has broken all records.

Great news from Saturn's moon Enceladus in the search for life in space

What are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life in our solar system? Frank Postberg, a professor of planetary science ...

A high school student was scanning free NASA-ESA images when he spotted a tiny dot near the Sun, which turned out to be a sungrazing comet in 2005

A high school student discovered a comet using publicly available NASA spacecraft images, turning a school project into an astronomy career and major scientific recognition.
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Hubble telescope finishes 200,000 Earth orbits in style, studying a star explosion

After more than 36 years in orbit and 1.7 million observations, Hubble continues to explore the universe and provide new ...
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Nasa built it for Mars. Now, it's revealing 2,000-year-old hidden secrets on Earth

A Nasa imaging technique first used to study Mars is helping archaeologists reveal faded paintings, rock art and preserved ...

In 1984, 12.5 million tomato seeds were launched into space: Six years later, students across the U.S. made an unexpected discovery

The seeds were only supposed to spend a year in orbit, but an unforeseen delay transformed the experiment into something much bigger.