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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...
The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...
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The White House's 2026 budget request axes NASA's long-held plan to bring Mars samples to Earth for analysis. Here's why that cancellation would be a mistake.
If you're banking on Earth being around forever, Elon Musk has some grim news: we're living on borrowed time—and the sun has ...
Jupiter conjunction on May 16th to Mercury’s evening appearance on May 22nd, this week’s sky is packed with celestial events. Watch Mars pass through the Beehive Cluster, spot Asteroid 4 Vesta, and ...
The sun has had quite a busy week hurling solar flares at our planet, causing blackouts across the globe. “After weeks of ...
Water ice is a crucial building block of planetary systems. We've found plenty of it in our own Solar System, in places like ...
Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the ...
Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...
Astronomers have long suspected the presence of frozen water, ever since in 2008 data from Nasa's retired Spitzer Space ...
Thursday, May 22 The Moon hangs near Saturn and Neptune in the early-morning sky, and it’s best to catch them earlier rather ...
A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...