Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet, or world beyond our solar system, that may be carpeted with volcanoes.
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The gas giant orbiter has flown over 510 million miles and also documented close encounters with three of Jupiter’s four largest moons.
Researchers found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas dropped for several years near the nation’s second-largest metropolitan area.
Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapor – around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time, indicating that water ice from the primordial solar system can be preserved in that region.
A vast galaxy cluster lurks in the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
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NASA supports USDA plant science research that benefits life on our home planet and beyond!
Evidence left in rocks is leading scientists to rethink what watery environments looked like on ancient Mars.
A science team gains new insight into the atmosphere of a “mini-Neptune,” a class of planet common in the galaxy but about which little is known.
After a long-distance delivery, nutrients in desert dust nourish life in the ocean.
Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to image the warm dust around a nearby young star, Fomalhaut, in order to study the first asteroid belt ever seen outside of our solar system in infrared light.
The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image.
The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The work is based on new modeling and explores how oceans could exist in unlikely places in our solar system.
