JWST Detects “Unequivocal” Carbon Dioxide In An Exoplanet’s Atmosphere For First Time
The wonderful exoplanet science that many astronomers have been waiting for has now been given by JWST, which has already produced incredible studies of close…
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Eight-Year-Old Girl Chats To Astronaut On The ISS Using Dad’s Radio
Using her father’s ham radio, an 8-year-old girl from the UK communicated with astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). With the aid of her…
Threatening Space Rock Set to Impact Earth in 2052 Won’t Hit Us After All
Folks: happy asteroid day! Officially ruled out is a dangerous space rock that had been ranking high on lists of potential hazards. We may all…
Perseverance Found A Bit of Sky Crane That Looks Like a Martian Snakeskin
Perseverance has accomplished a variety of firsts for rovers, including some really innovative scientific work and (unintentionally) the first known off-word hit-and-run. Finding pieces of…
PSR B1257+12 B – an Extrasolar Planet
PSR B1257+12 B, also known as Poltergeist, is an extrasolar planet located in the constellation Virgo about 2,300 light-years away. It is one of three…
PSR B1257+12 – a Millisecond Pulsar
PSR B1257+12, also known as PSR J1300+1240, is a millisecond pulsar located 2,300 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Virgo, rotating at approximately 161…
Kepler-62 – a K-type Main Sequence Star
Kepler-62 is a K-type main sequence star located approximately 990 light years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. It is in the field of view…
Mars Orbiter Is About To Upgrade from Windows 98
The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on board the Mars Express spacecraft of the European Space Agency (ESA) is due…
First Spacecraft to Test out NASA’s Weird Halo-Shaped Lunar Orbit Just Launched
A lot of Moon missions, from both reputable space organizations and commercial companies, were expected in 2022. However, a large number of planned launches have…
Researchers Discover Ice and Possibly Methane on the Faraway Dwarf Planet Snow White
The dwarf planet 2007 OR10, also known as Snow White, is an icy globe with roughly half of its surface covered in water ice that…
17-Year-Old Stellar Mystery Solved by Comet Collisions Every 6 Seconds
Near a naked-eye star in the constellation Cetus named 49 CETI, comets have been crashing into one another every six seconds for millions of years.…
Frozen Plains Found by NASA’s New Horizons in Pluto’s “Heart”
A fresh close-up view of Pluto in the most recent data from NASA’s New Horizons probe shows a wide, craterless plain that appears to be…
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