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NASA's massive super-pressure balloon has completed a 16-day trip around the Southern Hemisphere — a milestone in ...
New views of TOI-421 b by JWST gives insight into how the most common type of planet in the galaxy might form.
Through the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, especially infrared, NASA scientists have peered deeper into Jupiter’s ...
An aerospace engineer explains why NASA, Space Force and other agencies are using or testing aerobraking for more ...
Astronomer Eliza Kempton said that she had waited her "entire career" to peer into an atmosphere from this mysterious class of planets.
Though they don't orbit around our sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...
The company, Archaea Energy, is an affiliate of oil and gas giant BP. They’re covering the costs of installing an improved field of methane capture wells at the landfill, plus construction of a ...
That budgetary change aligns with the priorities of Elon Musk, who founded his SpaceX rocket company two decades ago with ...
NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...
One of the big surprises: Despite the moon's cooled crust, the data shows Io maintains liquid hot lava just below the ground.
An exoplanet discovered in 2020 contains the coldest temperatures ever measured on a planetary body, according to scientists.
A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But ...