NASA’s Hubble Sees Baby Planets Colliding Around A Famous Star

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...
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A hidden world? Astronomers may have found a new solar system planet

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Here’s where NASA is looking for alien life in our solar system

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

NASA's Hubble sees a stunning planet-forming disk. It's a real doozy.

New images from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust around a single ...

Behold ‘Dracula’s Chivito,’ the Largest Planet Nursery Astronomers Have Ever Seen

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...
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NASA released 30 amazing high-def photos of the largest planet in our solar system—Jupiter

With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and ...
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Hubble Telescope Captures Rare Double Collision Building Planets 25 Light-Years Away

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Mercury: The planet that shouldn't exist

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
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NASA Can Open Up the Solar System With Nuclear Propulsion

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...