Every planet will align in a rare parade next month – here’s how to see it
Despite the name, a planetary alignment isn’t when the planets get in a row, it’s when a fair few gather on one side of the ...
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Saturn's Rings Had Strange Seasonal Spokes - Hubble To Study
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
NASA’s NEO Surveyor Takes First Steps Toward Saving Earth From Asteroids
Slated for a 2027 launch, NASA's NEO Surveyor mission is advancing through critical testing phases to enhance our planetary ...
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Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...
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James Webb Space Telescope 4K Video: Spots Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 light-years away. Credit: Space.com | footage: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and K ...
NASA’s PUNCH Mission Set To Unlock the Sun’s Hidden Secrets
Four compact satellites of NASA's PUNCH mission are prepping for a shared launch with the SPHEREx space telescope on a SpaceX ...
Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...
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Stranded NASA Astronaut on the ISS Takes a Spacewalk, With Another Planned
Wilmore, 61, and Williams, 58, are veteran astronauts and are both naval officers and former test pilots. Williams has been a ...
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Even more planets were hiding in Kepler’s fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost ...
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This quasar may have helped turn the lights on for the universe
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...
When, where, and how to see 6 planets align in a rare night-sky parade in January and February
Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...
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NASA administrator steps down, urges continuity under new leadership
In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of ...