Astronomers studying the formation of three planets in the disk surrounding a young star found that planets and their atmospheres likely form in gaps between gas and dust-filled rings in the disk, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Astronomers have learned how energy inside gaseous, dust-filled disks surrounding stars help prevent young planets from smashing into the stars they orbit, according to a study released Thursday.
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Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth’s solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday.
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Three scientists won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it.
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While exploring a giant crater on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected salt-bearing sediments within ancient crater rocks, which suggests a lake was once present there before the planet transitioned to arid climates over billions of years, according to a study released Monday.
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The origin story behind a massive, newly discovered exoplanet and the small red dwarf star it orbits is difficult to explain using the standard theories on how the cosmos was formed billions of years ago, astronomers said in a study released Thursday.
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The Mars Helicopter was affixed to the Mars 2020 rover Wednesday as a preparation to make aeronautical history when it becomes the first aircraft to fly on the surface of another planet.
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Using the combined power of three U.S observatories, astronomers discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter that orbits around its star on an unusual, oval-shaped path, according to a study released Tuesday.
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The winds on Mars could be transporting life via dust, given how microbial life moves across the Atacama Desert in northern Chile.
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To prepare for the next mission to Mars in 2020, NASA has taken to the lava fields of Iceland to get its new robotic space explorer ready for the job.
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The Milky Way galaxy is home to countless stars, planets, and other celestial objects. Currently, scientists’ knowledge of its shape is based on what is known about other galaxies and models of our own solar system – but it is not the whole picture.
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Scientists using a planet-hunting NASA satellite announced Monday the discovery of three new planets orbiting a nearby star, including one that may have had liquid water oceans.
Read moreSilica aerogels have been used to keep NASA exploration rovers warm at night, and a study released Monday shows it could be the solution to sustaining life in the most uninhabitable of places – Mars.
Read moreThe dazzling, icy rings around Saturn – the second largest planet in the Milky Way – were shaped by the gravitational pull of the gas giant’s small moons, astronomers said Thursday, who also discovered the rings are much younger than previously believed.
Read moreResearchers made a startling discovery challenging scientific consensus regarding the composition of the subterranean oceans on Europa, one of 79 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Read moreThe quest to find exoplanets – Earth-like objects orbiting distant stars in our universe – will get a boost from a flower-like spacecraft with metallic petals to block starlight long enough for telescopes to view distant objects like never before, NASA said Tuesday.
Read moreDespite orbiting the sun at an average distance of 3.6 billion miles, Pluto’s subsurface oceans haven’t frozen over, a phenomenon researchers said they’ve solved in a study released Monday.
Read moreA spacecraft designed to probe the depths of Mars’ surface in order to study the origins of our universe has recorded the first Martian quake ever detected, NASA said Tuesday.
Read moreJapan’s space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid to make a crater and then collect underground samples for possible clues to the origin of the solar system.
Read moreNASA officials said Monday the agency will leap into a new era of deep space exploration through missions to place humans on the moon again, launch commercial space ventures and deepen the study of life-sustaining conditions on Mars.
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