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![Artist's concept shows a full disk of imagined planet Vulcan, predominantly light brown with patches of gray-green, against the black background of space.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/vulcan-1280.png?w=4096&format=png)
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
4 min read
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
Article1 month ago
![Space scene of a thin atmosphere version of Gliese 12 b](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/gl12b-illustration-less-atmosphere-ac.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
5 min read
Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered…
Article1 month ago
![An exoplanet is seen as a tiny dotof light blue light next to a str that has been masked with a screen. Protruding from both sides are bright, yellow-orange jets. Those indicate the disk of debris.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/bpweb.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images
5 min read
Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b.
Article7 months ago
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Scorching, Seven-Planet System Revealed by New Kepler Exoplanet List
3 min read
A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA’s retired Kepler space telescope:…
Article8 months ago
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Why NASA’s Roman Mission Will Study Milky Way’s Flickering Lights
6 min read
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide one of the deepest-ever views into the heart of our Milky Way…
Article8 months ago
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NASA’s Roman Mission Gears Up for a Torrent of Future Data
5 min read
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is exploring ways to support community efforts that will prepare for the deluge…
Article9 months ago
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