planets
NASA finds potentially habitable Earth-sized exoplanet, Gliese 12 b
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NASA says that Gliese 12 b, about 40 light years away, could help researchers understand the habitability of other planets across the ...
Newly discovered comet brightens, grows tail as it heads toward Earth: report
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US News By Steve Janoski Published May 26, 2024, 5:24 p.m. ET A newly-discovered comet is set to pass Earth in October ...
Dead robot on Mars is still doing useful work for NASA, photos show
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NASA’s InSight Lander ran out of power on Mars 18 months ago. But it’s still providing useful information to the space agency ...
A Potentially Habitable World Just 40 Light-Years From Earth
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Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool, red dwarf star located just 40 light-years away, promises to tell astronomers more about how ...
Astronomers Uncover a Baffling “Cosmic Mystery” – A Giant Planet As Fluffy as Cotton Candy
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WASP-193b, a new exoplanet, is 50% larger than Jupiter but seven times less massive, with an extremely low density similar to cotton ...
Super Fluffy “Cotton Candy” Exoplanet Discovery Shocks Scientists – “We Cannot Explain How This Planet Formed”
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Astronomers have discovered an enormous, low-density planet named WASP-193b, which is 50% larger than Jupiter but has a cotton candy-like density. This ...
Scientists Discover Why “Earth’s Twin” Has Almost No Water
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Venus today is dry thanks to water loss to space as atomic hydrogen. In the dominant loss process, an HCO+ ion recombines ...
Mars Express Discovers Mysterious Martian “Spiders”
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The dark spots in this image from ESA’s Mars Express are the telltale sign of ‘spiders’ scattered across the southern polar region ...
Martian Methane Baffles Scientists: Curiosity Rover’s Surprising Discovery
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover has detected methane in Gale Crater on Mars, a surprising find as there are no signs of life on ...
What to know about next week’s total solar eclipse in the US, Mexico and Canada
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North America is on the verge of another masking of the sun. Monday’s total solar eclipse will make landfall along Mexico’s Pacific ...
