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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
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Did NASA's Viking landers accidentally kill life on Mars? Why one scientist thinks so
Dirk Schulze-Makuch is a scientist who thinks NASA's Viking landers could have inadvertently destroyed the life they were ...
NASA Installs Roman Space Telescope's Planet-Hunting Coronagraph
The Roman Telescope is being built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where the coronagraph recently arrived after being ...
NASA set to search for alien planets from 2027 as new space telescope set for launch
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch around May 2027, the agency has said, and will let us unravel ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
Astronaut reveals the 'lightbulb' moment he had after seeing Earth and realising we are living a 'lie'
Former NASA cadet Ronald Garan experienced a 'lightbulb' moment after having an uninterrupted view of our world. The ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
With a field of view at least 100 times ... learned to the next generation of NASA flagship missions that will be explicitly designed to look for Earth-like planets." The coronagraph, which ...
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1986 NASA probe gave us the wrong impression of Uranus — until now
When Voyager 2 performed the first and only close flyby of Uranus in 1986, scientists were left scratching their heads. Now, ...
The rings of Saturn are going to disappear in a few months. Here's what's happening
Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...
NASA Finally Unveils The Mysterious Electric Field Stretching Earth’s Atmosphere
The discovery was made during NASA’s Endurance mission, which launched in May 2022 from Svalbard, Norway. The mission was led by Glyn Collinson, an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
Legendary Star’s Smooth Disk Mystifies Astronomers, Challenges Planet Formation Theories
Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...