NASA James Webb Space Telescope Makes Shocking Discovery Regarding a Cold Brown Dwarf

The telescope's latest observations have revealed methane emission on this celestial body, a surprising revelation given its frigid and secluded nature. This discovery suggests that the brown dwarf in ... Read More

Extrasolar Planets News

1, 2024 — Up to a certain point, very luminous stars can have a positive effect on the formation of planets ... Jan. 26, 2024 — TOI-1136, a dwarf star located more than 270 light years ... Read More

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ABC News’ Victor Oquendo spoke with former NASA astronaut and ABC News contributor, Col. Cady Coleman, on sharing her experiences of space and ... astrophysicist and science educator Hakeem ... Read More

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built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef ABC News ... Read More

‘Humanity’s spacecraft’ Voyager 1 is back online and still exploring

They’re now receiving data about the spacecraft’s health and hope to hear from its science instruments again in a few weeks, says Suzanne Dodd, the mission’s project manager at NASA’s Jet ... Read More

NASA's planet-hunter TESS temporarily shuts off

SpaceX launched TESS in 2018 to replace the decommissioned Kepler telescope as NASA's primary planet ... Science News // 1 day ago Crew of first Boeing Starliner mission arrives at Kennedy Space ... Read More

Space and Astronomy

By Kenneth Chang She Dreams of Pink Planets and Alien Dinosaurs Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, hunts for aliens in space ... be good news for the ... Read More

Why there may be oceans inside dwarf planets beyond Pluto—and what this means for the likely abundance of life

This idea was scuppered in 1962 when the spacecraft Mariner 2 flew past ... internal ocean to the sun may be inside the dwarf planet Ceres, though that is perhaps largely frozen by now, or may ... Read More

Space Exploration news

Not only will this technology enable new types of planetary science missions, one of NASA's ... China's space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on ... Read More

NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months

NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating ... Voyager 1′s odyssey began in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets of the solar system. Read More

Greetings, Earth! NASA can understand Voyager 1 again

The 46-year-old space probe is making sense ... The probe is now coherent, but according to NASA, the next step is to enable Voyager 1 to begin to return usable science information again. Read More

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