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...
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.
"Information about a planet’s interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it," Kane explained. "Though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of a many rocky worlds yet to be discov...
While venturing beyond our planet captures the imagination,the true impact of space exploration may be felt much closer to home. Public perception often frames space exploration as a distant endeavor with limited relevance to terrestrial challenges. However, this perspective overlooks the substantial cont...
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 ...
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)...
“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...
TESS Discovers Longest-Orbit Exoplanet Yet Astronomers Uncover Exoplanet With Unprecedented Orbit Reference: “TOI-4600 b and c: Two Long-period Giant Planets Orbiting an Early K Dwarf” by Ismael Mireles, Diana Dragomir, Hugh P. Osborn, Katharine Hesse, Karen A. Collins, Steven Villanueva, Al...
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...
The crater floor will be outside the line of sight Grace would ordinarily need to talk with the nearby Athena. The MAPP rover will close this communications gap, for it's equipped with what will be the moon’s first cellular network. MAPP will deploy onto...