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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Mining old data from NASA's Voyager 2 solves several Uranus mysteries
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...
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The exceptional observation of the birth of a planet outside our Solar System
Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined ... The goal of the European project SPIDI, which we are leading at the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in ...
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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...
A rare event during 1986 Uranus flyby may have skewed the way scientists understand the planet, study finds
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
As the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter has a magnetic field 20,000 times ... began to search for a way to explain the unexpected data, said Linda Spilker, project scientist for the twin ...
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The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
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Are nearby planets sending radio signals to each other?
This project marks the longest single-target ... our chances of finding regular communications among planets beyond our solar system, if they exist." The team did not find any alien signals ...
Planet's moon may have an ocean under its surface
Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites and orbits the planet around once every 1.4 Earth ...
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Scientists look for alien technology from the TRAPPIST planets
The project marked the longest single ... a massive study of rocky worlds outside our solar system, specifically to discover if planets orbiting closely around stars like TRAPPIST-1 could have ...