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California’s Thomas Fire Continues to Grow Overnight
California’s Thomas Fire Continues to Grow Overnight

The Thomas fire has been burning for 11 days now and has grown to be the 4th largest fire in…

Kepler-90 System Planet Sizes
Kepler-90 System Planet Sizes

The Kepler-90 planets have a similar configuration to our solar system with small planets found orbiting close to their star,…

Kepler-90 Planets Orbit Close to Their Star
Kepler-90 Planets Orbit Close to Their Star

Kepler-90 is a Sun-like star, but all of its eight planets are scrunched into the equivalent distance of Earth to…

Could Kepler-90 Have More Planets?
Could Kepler-90 Have More Planets?

This graphic shows that a small area around the Kepler-90 system, on the left, has been searched by the Kepler…

Planetary Systems by Number of Known Planets
Planetary Systems by Number of Known Planets

This figure shows the number of systems with one, two, three, planets, etc. Each dot represents one known planetary system.…

Exoplanet Discoveries
Exoplanet Discoveries

Today, as shown in figure 10, we know of over 3,500 confirmed exoplanets, with more than 2,500 of those found…

GOLD Instrument and SES-14 Spacecraft
GOLD Instrument and SES-14 Spacecraft

The GOLD instrument (the gray and white object located on the front right corner of the top deck) has completed…

GRACE-FO Arrives at Launch Site
GRACE-FO Arrives at Launch Site

A crate containing one of the twin Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites.

NASA Conducts Final RS-25 Rocket Engine Test of 2017
NASA Conducts Final RS-25 Rocket Engine Test of 2017

NASA engineers capped a year of Space Launch System testing with a final RS-25 rocket engine hot fire on Dec.…

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Captures Smoke Billowing Off California Coast
NASA’s Aqua Satellite Captures Smoke Billowing Off California Coast

The huge amounts of smoke tumbling off the coast of California is also an indicator of how active the Thomas…