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'Planet killer' asteroid hidden by the sun may threaten Earth in a few thousand years
Asteroids orbiting between Earth and the sun are especially hard to find, but NASA can't deflect ha…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA just discovered an Earth-like planet
"It's simply awe-inspiring to consider that this planet has spent 6 billion years in the habitable …
Jessica Orwig
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NASA and Google are announcing a 'major discovery' about exoplanets - here's what it probably is
Kepler, a space telescope that trails Earth in orbit around the sun, has stared down 145,000 sun-li…
Dave Mosher
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NASA video shows 10-year time lapse of Sun in 61 minutes
This 10-year time lapse showcases photos taken at a wavelength of 17.1 nanometers, which is an…
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NASA's getting ready to plunge a spacecraft deeper into the sun than ever before
"Solar Probe Plus is a true mission of exploration; for example, the spacecraft will go close enoug…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA just announced it will probe a dead planet's core
"[W]hen NASA says that there have been 12 Discovery missions, consider that 10 of them were selecte…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's Juno probe has solved a 39 year-old mystery about Jupiter's lightning
"Until Juno, all the lightning signals recorded by spacecraft were limited to either visual detecti…
Jeremy Berke
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Astronomer discovers rare comet near the sun during total solar eclipse
An astronomer has spotted a little tiny speck flying past the Sun which is a recently discovered ra…
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This space telescope just uncovered more than 100 new planets, including a planetary system that might harbor life
"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of …
Ali Sundermier
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How to watch NASA reveal a 'discovery beyond our solar system' on Wednesday
Another attendee is Sara Seager, a planetary scientist at MIT who's leading NASA's Transiting Exopl…
Dave Mosher
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Clouds on Uranus smell like farts, astronomers have confirmed - a clue that there was 'a big shakeup' early in the solar system
"If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus's clouds, they would be met with very …
Dave Mosher
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Evidence of water on moon’s surface, but terms and conditions apply
This development comes from studying the infrared measurements taken by NASA’s moon mineralogy m…
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Researchers Discover First Earth-Sized Planets That Could Support Life
The "habitable zone" is the area in space that is the right distance from the star for a planet to …
Dina Spector
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NASA's only mission to the Asteroid Belt is about die an 'impotent' death after 11 years in space
"It will struggle for a short time, but it will be impotent," Marc Rayman, Dawn's mission manager a…
Dave Mosher
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An incredible new 60-second animation shows where 4,000 planets beyond our solar system are located in deep space
The first pictures of Earth-like worlds may come from enormous ground-based observatories, includin…
Dave Mosher
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Scientists have discovered a new planet twice the size of Earth, and it could have liquid water on its surface
Since Kepler is no longer hunting for planets, NASA is now hoping that a new space telescope will a…