Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
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Our solar system is not as unusual as we thought
A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.
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Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system
Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...
Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Captures Images of Individual Planets in Distant Star System
Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...
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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planets
The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby Barnard’s star
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard’s star – one of our closest stellar neighbors – though they concluded that all of them are too hot to harbor life, much ...
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Seven Planets Align in 2025! Don’t Miss This Rare Celestial Phenomenon
The night sky has inspired humankind since time immemorial, and in 2025 one of the most unusual planetary alignments of all ...
Saturn’s rings to ‘vanish’ this weekend: What to know
The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a vanishing ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Why don’t molecules ever stop moving?
Our bodies are always moving, even when we don’t realize it. We churn through a solar system on a wobbly planet, stand upon ...