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Smelliest planets in and around our solar system
Have you ever wondered if the seemingly endless vacuum of space had a smell? The answer to this que…
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It's official, folks! The ESA has finally confirmed that Earth indeed is still habitable (here’s why!)
The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft just confirmed Earth's habitability during its flyby. …
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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplaneta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Sealing panel used aboard the Jupiter-bound Europa Clipper spacecraft to sport a message encoded in Hindi!
One side of this plate displays etchings of 103 waveforms, representing the word “water” in differe…
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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offe…
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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 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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45 years ago, NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew past Jupiter. See how the iconic video compares to photos of the planet today.
Voyager 1 captured Jupiter as nobody had ever seen it before. Now, 45 years later, NASA's Juno spac…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Ellyn L…
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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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Five planets will stage a rare spectacular event in the night sky on March 28
Star gazers worldwide have marked March 28 on their calendars for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spect…
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Why did a NASA spacecraft suddenly start talking gibberish after more than 45 years of operation? What fixed it?
Voyager 1 mysteriously stopped sending decipherable science and engineering data back to Earth on N…
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An interplanetary collision might have shrunk Mercury to its current size, scientists think
Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, has long captivated scientists with its extrem…
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers Jupiter has a jet stream whipping around the planet at 320 mph, twice as fast as Earth's fiercest hurricanes
NASA scientists have discovered a 3,000-mile-wide jet stream around Jupiter's equator, thanks to th…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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5 planets will align this week. Here's when, where, and how to see the alignment of Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus, and Mercury.
Here's how to see five planets align. The rare planetary parade of Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus…
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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Mars could be creating 'giant whirlpools' deep within our planet's oceans
Scientists claim the red planet's gravitational pull may be strong enough to move sediments on Eart…
Marianne Guenot
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Jupiter's moon Europa generates enough oxygen to keep a million people alive for a day, NASA says
NASA's Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's moon Europa generates less oxygen than thought, which n…
Ellyn Lapointe
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth
NASA's Juno spacecraft flew extremely close to Jupiter's eruptive moon Io and took some stunning ph…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Scientists discover giant gaseous planet almost three times larger than Jupiter
By going through data from TESS, Jacobs helped spot the gaseous planet now identified as TOI-2…