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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,…
Article2 months ago
![Distant photo of Earth from space](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/earth-762.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
Is Earth an Oddball?
4 min read
One of the strangest things in the cosmos might be – us. Among the thousands of planets confirmed to be…
Article5 years ago
![David Latham, a senior astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, with the HARPS-N spectrograph, which measures the masses of exoplanets.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Dave-Latham_1280.jpg?w=4096&format=jpeg)
The Planet Hunter and the ‘Unseen Giant’
6 min read
It was March 1988, and astronomer David Latham was working into the night, puzzling over an odd result from an…
Article5 years ago
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