Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away
The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...
What Happens When Planets Orbit Too Close to Fiery Young Stars
Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...
NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track ...
Webb telescope images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," offer insight into carbon dioxide, NASA says
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Unveiling the cosmic choreography that shapes the size and location of sub-Neptunes
A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...
NASA’s newest space telescope blasts off from Vandenberg to map sky, explore dawn of universe
Besides the telescope, SpaceX’s Falcon rocket provided a lift from Vandenberg for a quartet of NASA satellites called Punch.
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SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California
The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe ...
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NASA launches newest space telescope to seek life’s key ingredients
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NASA's newest space telescope blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies
NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope ...