NASA turned the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to a world 48 light-years away, a type of planet called a "mini-Neptune" that's bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Astronomers found the world well over a decade ago, in 2009, but didn't have an instrument capable of peering...
'Super Earth': NASA discovers 10B year-old planet unlike any other in deep space A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains, with glare and heavy cloud illumination. (Photo by Getty Images) A number of planets described as Su...
NASA Discovers Planet with the Help of British StudentA BRITISH student who was given a telescope at the age of 10 by his parents has helped American scientists to find an undiscovered planet orbiting a distant star.
Two giant planets comparable to our own system’sSaturnorbit a star not unlike our Sun some 700 light-years away. The outer planet has the longest year – 483 days – of any found so far by NASA’s TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). It’s also among the coldest. Astrono...
The Red Planet: Design on Our Race to Mars November 03, 2020 © Qingshan Wu Space has long captured our imaginations. Looking to the ocean above us, writers, scientists and designers alike have continuously dreamed up new visions for a future on distant planets.Marsis at the center of this...
James Webb Space Telescope discovers water ice at ringed asteroid Chariklo 'by remarkable luck' January 21, 2023 at 5:31 AM Webb studies a planet-forming disk The James Webb Space Telescope studied the planet forming disk of dust surrounding a small young star.(Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI)...
The new comet, C/2019 Q4, is still inbound toward the Sun, but it will remain farther than the orbit ofMarsand will approach no closer to Earth than about 190 million miles (300 million kilometers). After the initial detections of the comet,Scout system, which is located atNASA’s Jet...
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details on Jupiter together with its rings, tiny satellites, and even galaxies in one image,” de Pater said. The planet's rings and moons are also highlighted in the relea...
Under the plan announced Wednesday, NASA’s Perseverance rover will do double duty and transport the cache to the rocket that will launch them off the red planet a decade from now. Perseverance already has gathered 11 samples with more rock drilling planned. The most recent sample, a...
But according to new NASA-funded research from the Sellers Exoplanet Environments Collaboration (SEEC), Mars may have been wetter longer than previously expected. According to recently published results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mars may have had a northern ocean as ...