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A Millennium Falcon-shaped comet heading toward Earth is so bright you'll able to see it with your naked eye, say astronomers
The comet, known as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, abruptly brightened 100-fold on July 20 as plumes of deb…
Ellie Zolfagharifard
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The Milky Way's shiniest known planet has metal clouds that rain down titanium. Astronomers say it 'shouldn't exist.'
The exoplanet, named LTT9779b, is about five times the size of the Earth and has clouds laced with …
Marianne Guenot
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Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.
The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has helped redefine our knowledge of the solar syste…
Marianne Guenot
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It should take another 300 years for NASA's Voyager 1 probe to reach the most distant region of our solar system. Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars.
Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012 and is drifting through interstellar space at the edge of …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Saturn's gravitational pull shredded an ancient moon, creating its iconic rings and unusual tilt, new research suggests
One of Saturn's icy moons may have been ripped apart 160 million years ago, a new study suggests. T…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's Voyager spacecraft carry golden records loaded with music and photos, to explain our world to aliens
When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, they carried on board a collection of pho…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA fixed a glitch on Voyager 1 after consulting 45-year-old manuals. The spacecraft was beaming information through a dead computer.
Voyager 1 was designed and built in the early 1970s. Documentation could be lost or misplaced, maki…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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A comet has been spotted among Jupiter's ancient asteroids for the very first time
A centaur flying into a bunch of trojans sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but that is exact…
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Exposed: The first exoplanet to bare its core only takes 18 hours to complete a year and sizzles at 1,500 degrees Celsius
730 light-years away an exoplanet— a planet that lies outside the Earth’s solar system — is the f…
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A startup is building a balloon to transport tourists to the 'edge of space' for $125,000. See what the Spaceship Neptune may look like.
The final goal is to carry passengers and research equipment to and from above 99% of the atmospher…
Brittany Chang
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Watch NASA launch a spacecraft to explore ancient asteroids that lead and trail Jupiter around the sun
The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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There are 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter and Neptune — and even computers can’t predict where they are headed
Interstellar asteroids — asteroids from outside our solar system — may not be as rare as we once …
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A scientist's simple animation shows how the planets rocket around the sun at wildly different speeds
Planets must careen through space at astonishing speeds to avoid falling into the sun. The closer t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is finally returning to Venus with 2 new spacecraft - one to map the 'inferno-like world' and one to plunge to its surface
By orbiting Venus and plunging to its surface, NASA's new missions could reveal how the planet beca…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth has detected a 'hum' in the space beyond our solar system
The Voyager 1 probe left our solar system nearly a decade ago. It recently detected a faint hum mad…
Aylin Woodward
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The mysterious interstellar object 'Oumuamua was a chunk of planet from another solar system, a new study says
Some astronomers think space object 'Oumuamua could have been an alien spaceship. But new research …
Aylin Woodward
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A newly discovered space object called 'Farfarout' is the most distant thing in our solar system
It takes Farfarout 1,000 years to orbit the sun. Distant objects like this could help astronomers i…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scavenger hunt for Planet X just dropped another clue
So far three dwarf planets, including the Goblin, have been found in the fringes of our solar …