New observations of WASP-12b conducted with the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the planet's sun-facing side "eats light".
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A study led by researchers from the ESO has discovered an extremely hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet that has titanium oxide in its atmosphere
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Barely a week and a half after the thrilling conclusion to the record breaking space endurance mission by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, a new Russian-American trio blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian Soyuz capsule and boarded safely early this morning Wednesday, Sept. 13, after arriving as planned on a fast track orbital trajectory.
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A recent study involving data collected by the K2 mission has revealed three possible Super-Earths around a nearby Sun-like star.
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Wondering where are the fleeting inner solar system planets are this month?
While Jupiter and Saturn sink into the dusk on the far side of the Sun this month, the real action transpires in the dawn sky in mid-September, with a complex set of early morning conjunctions, groupings and occultations.
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A new study by an international team of scientists has revealed that modern galaxy shapes may be the result of early galaxies swelling with new stars
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Before it makes its final plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Friday, the Cassini spacecraft made one last flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
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The largest solar flare in twelve years was recently witnessed by a team of UK scientists, and could teach us a great deal about predicting space weather
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A new study by an international team of astrophysicists has demonstrated that gravitational waves could be detected coming from exploding stars
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Located in the northern constellation of Lyra, roughly 32,900 light years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 56
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A new study by scientists from the John Hopkins Univeristy Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) indicates that Jupiter's auroras may be more mysterious than we thought
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TITUSVILLE/CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – NASA and Air Force officials have ordered the closure of the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as deadly Cat 4 Hurricane Irma relentlessly targets a direct hit on Florida and forces millions of residents and tourists to evacuate catastrophic consequences coming tonight, Saturday, Sept. 9 and throughout the weekend.
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A new study by a team of European astrophysicists has turned exoplanet-hunting on its head by asking "could aliens detect Earth?"
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A new study by an international team of researchers indicates that older Sun-like stars emit less harmful X-rays, a finding which has implications for exoplanet habitability
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A new study led by researchers from the Carnegie Institute of Science indicates that TRAPPIST-1 could also be orbited by gas giants
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The discovery of boron on Mars, a key ingredient in the emergence of organic molecules, has bolstered the case for Martian life having once existed
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A team of Chinese astronomers has just discovered two new hypervelocity stars, a rare type of star that is still a mystery to astronomers
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Amidst the frenzy of 'Sunshine State' preparations for Cat 5 monster Hurricane Irma and quite dismal weather favorability odds, the skies surrounding the Florida Space Coast suddenly parted just in the nick of time enabling the Air Force's secret military X-37B spaceplane to blast off this morning (Sept. 7) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 as the booster nailed another thrilling ground landing back at the Cape.
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Thanks to a team of researchers from the Netherlands, who used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the second fastest-spinning pulsar has been discovered
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Although its far from sunny in the so called 'Sunshine State' the secret X-37B military mini-shuttle is set for a SpaceX blastoff and booster landing combo Thursday, Sept. 7 - even as the looming threat from Cat 5 Hurricane Irma forced Florida's Governor to declare a statewide 'State of Emergency.'
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According to a new study by a Russian scientist, the Sun's own motion around the Solar System's center of mass could disrupt our ability to detect Earth 2.0
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It's a mystery that's puzzled astronomers for years. Which came first, supermassive black holes or the galaxies that surround them?
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Based on data provided by the Gaia mission, a new study has indicated when close encounters will take place between our Sun and other stars in the future.
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NASA just observed two powerful flares emitted off the Sun. Now's your chance to see some auroras, if the full Moon doesn't wreck the view.
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A team of researchers from japan have found evidence of another massive black hole near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
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NASA's Peggy Whitson, America's most experienced astronaut, returned to Earth safely and smiling Sunday morning on the steppes of Kazakhstan, concluding her record-breaking stay in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) along with Soyuz crewmates Jack Fischer of NASA and Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos.
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A new study from a team of researchers from the University of Iowa claims black holes ejecting light could have been what ended the cosmic "Dark Ages"
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NASA engineers are busy getting the InSight Lander ready for launch, which is scheduled to take place in early summer of 2018
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PLAYALINDA BEACH/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Following a successful engine test firing of the Falcon 9 first stage late Thursday afternoon (Aug. 30), SpaceX is targeting a post Labor Day launch of the U.S. Air Force's unmanned X-37B reusable mini-shuttle - a secretive technology testing spaceplane.
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A new study from the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics indicates that UV radiation may be the key to finding life on other planets
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Located in the southern skies is the Crux constellation (aka. the "Southern Cross"), a constellation that played an important role in the history of navigation and cultural astronomy
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A new study by an international team of astronomers indicates that the outermost planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system could still have significant amounts of water.
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A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is moving into Phase II of their plan to send a clockwork rover to explore Venus
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Using the Green Bank Telescope, researchers with Breakthrough Listen recently detected repeating fast radio bursts coming from a distant galaxy.
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The second Hyperloop Pod Design Competition was a success, with teams from all over the world testing their pod car designs at SpaceX test track in California.
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A new study conducted by an international team of astronomers has revealed two new "Warm Jupiter" exoplanets in two distant star systems.
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Ready to hunt for low-flying space rocks? We've got an interesting pass of a Near Earth Asteroid this upcoming U.S. Labor Day weekend one that just slides over the +10th magnitude line into binocular range.
We're talking about asteroid 3122 Florence which passes 4.4 million miles from our fair planet (that's 7 million kilometers, about 18 times the distance from Earth to the Moon) this Friday on September 1st at 12:06 Universal Time (UT)/ 8:06 AM Eastern Daylight Saving Time (EDT).
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In a recent interview, former astronaut and science communicator Chris Hadfield advocating settling the Moon before going to Mars.
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Located in the Sagittarius Constellation, roughly 17,600 light-years from Earth, is the globular star cluster known as Messier 55
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When it is deployed in 2018, the James Webb Space Telescope will spend some of its time studying the "Ocean Worlds" of Europa and Enceladus, hoping to find evidence of life.
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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL — A Cold War-era derived Peacekeeper ICBM missile formerly armed with multiple nuclear warheads and now modified as a payload orbiter successfully launched an urgently needed space situational awareness and space junk tracking satellite to equatorial orbit overnight this morning, Aug. 26, for the U.S. military from the Florida Space Coast.
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A new study from the University of Antioquia suggests that the mysterious behavior of Tabby's Star could be due to a ringed gas giant.
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