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There Better Be Some Goddamn Aliens in This Solar System Loaded with Earth-Sized Planets
A newly discovered seven-planet system is our “best bet” for finding life.
There'd Better Be Some Goddamn Aliens in This Solar System Loaded With Earth-Sized Planets
A newly discovered seven-planet system is our “best bet” for finding life.
Watch NASA's Big Announcement About New Planets
The agency is poised to present new findings on a "discovery beyond our solar system" at 1 PM EST.
NASA Wants You to Be the Rando Who Finds Our Solar System’s Hidden Planet
Crowdsourcing the search for the hypothetical Neptune-sized world at the edge of the solar system.
Divining a New Solar System Timeline from Rocks Older than Earth
We ogle images of gorgeous star-forming nebula from afar, but it’s tougher to reconstruct the nebula that formed our own cosmic hood.
This Is the Closest You’ll Get to Pluto For Now
NASA has now put together 100 color photos to show what it would be like to land on the dwarf planet.
Pluto Has Towers of Ice 1,600 Feet Tall
The only other planet in the solar system to have such structures, called 'penitentes', is Earth.
NASA Announces Exotic Asteroid Missions, Fueling Space Mining Hopes
Lucy will visit six of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will aim for the exposed, metal-rich core of an ancient protoplanet.
This Star Has 'Eaten' Some of Its Planets, Earning the Nickname 'Death Star'
Researcher discover evidence of in-falling planets by observing large amounts of lithium and other metals in stellar atmosphere.
This Star Has 'Eaten' Some of Its Planets, Earning the Nickname 'Death Star'
Researcher discover evidence of in-falling planets by observing large amounts of lithium and other metals in stellar atmosphere.
The ExoMars Lander May Have Crashed, but the Mission’s Orbiter Is Nailing It
“We are extremely happy and proud to see that all the instruments are working so well in the Mars environment.”