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The James Webb Space Telescope, often known as Webb or JWST, is a massive space-based observatory tuned for infrared wavelengths that will complement and extend Hubble Space Telescope discoveries. It

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Surface Features and a Possible Polar Cap on Pluto have been Discovered by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft

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An international team of scientists, including researchers from NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, analyzed New Horizons data from Pluto's atmosphere and surface,

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Frozen Plains Found in Pluto’s ‘Heart’ by NASA’s New Horizons Mission

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A stunning close-up view of Pluto taken by NASA's New Horizons probe depicts a wide, craterless plain that seems to be no more than 100

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Two Distant Asteroids Provide a Clue to the Existence of a Possible ‘Planet Nine,’ According to New Data

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The first of a new class of distant solar system objects, orbiting the Sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune, was discovered in the year 2000: the extreme

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A New Catalog of Tens of Millions of Stars Reveals the Chemical History of the Milky Way

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Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that may be used to analyze

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Detecting gravitational waves from supermassive black holes

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Gravitational waves are a chaotic sea of ripples in space-time that make up our cosmos. Astronomers have been hoping to witness waves from circling pairs

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For $55 million each, SpaceX sends three visitors to the International Space Station.

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On Friday, SpaceX flew three wealthy businessmen and their astronaut escorts to the International Space Station for a stay of more than a week, joining Russia in welcoming visitors to

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The New Horizons Crew is Getting Ready for an Epic Flyby of Ultima Thule

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NASA's New Horizons mission will examine the furthest distant object ever visited by a spacecraft in less than ten weeks. New Horizons will ring in

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NASA will postpone the retest of Artemis, allowing Axiom Space to conduct a private launch.

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NASA will temporarily halt its efforts to finish a launch pad test of the mammoth Artemis moon rocket at Kennedy Space Center, paving the way

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The Goldilocks zone is a region on the globe where temperatures are just right for liquid water to exist.

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The "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" fairy tale inspired the Goldilocks zone. Goldilocks is a picky little girl who insists on her porridge being just right—not too hot or too