Rocky, Earth-Sized Exoplanet Is Missing an Atmosphere [Video]
Study reports on search for an atmosphere around a planet somewhat similar to ours. Astronomers at MIT, Harvard University, and elsewhere have searched a rocky,…
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Evidence of Cloaked Black Hole in Early Universe
A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a highly obscured black hole existing only 850 million years after…
Hubble Showcases New Portrait of Jupiter
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter’s clouds in this new image taken on 27 June 2019, by Hubble’s Wide…
Dark Matter May Be Older Than the Big Bang
A new mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the Big Bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly. Researchers believe…
Perfectly Sideways Galaxy Spied by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but it’s actually an entire galaxy viewed on its side….
Classic Mars Image From NASA’s Mariner 6 and 7
Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew by Mars in the summer of 1969 and returned photographs…
Hubble Discovers an Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football
How can a planet be “hotter than hot?” The answer is when heavy metals are detected escaping from the planet’s atmosphere, instead of condensing into…
TESS Discovers Habitable Zone Planet in GJ 357 System
A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of…
NASA’s TESS Mission Discovers Three New Worlds
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered three new worlds — one slightly larger than Earth and two of a…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy Orientated Directly Edge-On To Us
Believe it or not, this long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way. But…