NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto

NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.

These Nearby Alien Planets Are Stranger – and More Hostile – Than Expected

Barnard’s Star hosts four hostile small planets whose unusual chemistry and orbital rhythm reveal how compact planetary systems can form and survive.
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NASA’s Webb telescope discovers giant planet hiding in one of astronomy’s most famous systems

A giant planet had been hiding inside one of astronomy’s most closely studied planetary systems, concealed by a bright disk of cosmic dust. Webb revealed Beta Pictoris d through atmospheric traces of ...

NASA's new space telescope will tackle some of the universe's biggest mysteries

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...
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Bizarre Jupiter-Mass Exomoon Challenges Everything We Know About Planetary Systems

This illustration shows the system around the star CD-35 2722, with the newly found moon-like object at the center. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser. Astronomers have found what may be the first convincing ...