Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew…
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How can a planet be “hotter than hot?” The answer is when heavy metals are…
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the…
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and…
The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments in…
All atoms and molecules emit distinctive spectral lines across the spectrum, the details of which…
A team of astronomers led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have updated and confirmed…
Southern California got all shaken up after a set of recent quakes. But Earth isn’t…
In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA…
People have long dreamed of altering the Martian climate to make it livable for humans.…
Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed…
NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars…
The frigid lakeshores of Saturn’s moon Titan might be encrusted with strange, unearthly minerals, according…
The Kepler mission and its extension, called K2, discovered thousands of exoplanets. It detected them…
Dust is a critical component in the Martian atmosphere. It influences the atmosphere’s circulation by…
The Solar System’s second largest planet both in mass and size, Saturn is best known…