Earth is not alone… there’s another blue planet.
Astronomers making visible-light observations with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have deduced the actual color of a planet orbiting another star
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NASA versus asteroids. Can humanity survive?
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do
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Neutron star is full of secrets…
Astronomers using NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have observed a spinning neutron star suddenly slowing down, yielding clues they can use
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Hurricanes of Saturn.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn’s north pole.
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Surprises in star formation, finds NASA.
Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a
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Strange new structures in space discovered by NASA.
NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected
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The very, very small planet.
NASA’s Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around
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When rotating stars explode.
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole
Read MoreDrilling on Mars… what the heck will they discover?
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to
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Enter… the planet-maker star!
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new
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