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Webb Finds Hints of a Third Planet at PDS 70
The exoplanet census now stands at 5,599 confirmed discoveries in 4,163 star systems, with another 10,157 candidates awaiting confirmation. So…
Dawn Gets Right in Between the Sun and Ceres and Takes this Video
Using data provided by the Dawn probe, which now orbits between Ceres and the Sun (at opposition), NASA has created…
A Mission to a Metal World: The Psyche Mission
In their drive to set exploration goals for the future, NASA's Discovery Program put out the call for proposals for…
Invest a Night in Vesta
The brightest asteroid visible from Earth prowls across Cetus the Whale this month. Vesta shines at magnitude +6.3, right at the…
Should This Alien World Even Exist? This Young Disk Could Challenge Planet-Formation Theories
Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet…
Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material
Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft…
By Dawn’s Early Light
[/caption] Sunrise on Vesta highlights the asteroid's varied surface textures in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, released on Monday,…