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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 ...
Concept for interstellar object encounters developed, then simulated using a spacecraft swarm
Interstellar objects are among the last unexplored classes of solar system objects, holding tantalizing information about ...
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First direct image of CO2 outside our solar system captured by Webb
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
Asteroid 2024 YR may not hit Earth in 2032, but it—and others—will keep coming back
In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...
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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.
Webb Telescope Reveals Hidden Galaxy Behind “Cosmic Tornado”
Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we ...
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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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Webb telescope captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly capture images of the planets in the star system HR 8799, which ...
NASA Tracking Airplane-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth
NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The ...