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Using the Webb telescope, scientists may have found the ‘best bet’ for an ocean world outside our solar system!
Among all known temperate exoplanets, this is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming …
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How to pick the best cruises to see the northern lights, eclipses, and galaxies, according to an astrophysicist
Whether you want to see the northern lights or a meteor shower, astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi give…
Jenny McGrath
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Top tourist places to visit in Ooty in 2024
Also known as Udhagamandalam, Ooty is a popular hill station in South India renowned for its serene…
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How to see the year's best meteor shower this weekend, with fireballs, colorful trails, and a Jupiter-Mars conjunction
The Perseids can be the best meteor shower of the year, thanks to bright fireballs and long colorfu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope breaks another record, discovering the smallest star-like object astronomers have ever seen
NASA's Webb telescope was able to spot an object, the smallest of its kind, from 1,000 light years …
Rupendra Brahambhatt
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This freezing cold isolated block of ice is the best place on Earth for a telescope
In the far reaches of Antarctica, scientists have found the plateau that offers the clearest view o…
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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A space telescope that could protect Earth from asteroids has been stuck in 'NASA mission limbo hell' - but it may finally escape
A telescope in orbit could track asteroids that may crash into Earth. But no such mission has moved…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An ancient super-Earth offers an unexpected clue that life in our galaxy could be older than scientists thought
This rocky planet formed about 10 billion years ago, making it twice as old as Earth. It's too hot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Mo…
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Photos show what the Arecibo telescope looked like before and after its disastrous collapse
Compare images of the iconic Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico before and after its platform fell 45…
Susie Neilson
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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets. The next step is for ground-based t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Working at NASA is out of this world, but Homeland Security employment is not so hot: report
The 2021 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings report a slight decline in job sati…
Hanna Kang
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The best candidate for an Earth-like planet is also the farthest one detected yet — and it has a Guinness World Record to prove it
There’s only a handful of planets that fit the profile of being a potential second-home for …
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5 ways the world's most controversial telescope could revolutionize astronomy
Once the hot soup of particles generated by the big bang started to cool, they clustered into atoms…
Kelly Dickerson
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction
But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…
Dave Mosher
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Jupiter's oceanic moon Europa — a prime candidate for alien life — might glow in the dark, a NASA scientist discovered
Jupiter bombards Europa's surface with radiation. The resulting "mosaic" of glowing ice could hint …