Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

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NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, a groundbreaking mission, is set to provide new insights into the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere, the exosphere. The mission will capture detailed ...

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What is the nature of dark matter? A new experiment led by Columbia University physics professors aims to find out.

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

The world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, the Orion, is set to speed astronauts around the Moon, a trek that could ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take ...

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An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

The first private space science satellite set to study the effect of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the company behind it has said. Blue Skies Space, a space ...