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NASA spacecraft was 'hit' by a bright, never-before-seen object
When reviewing data from exoplanet hunter TESS, the scientists encountered what was not a planet, but a dazzling beam of light from the unidentifiable object.
For the first time discovered the 'heartbeat' of the mysterious star
For the past few decades, astronomers have been trying to listen to the 'heartbeat' of a class of stars called the Delta Scuti variable star.
'Solar eclipse' for the first time discovered in pairs of ancient Arctic stars aligned with the Egyptian pyramids
Astronomers have long understood that a star called Thuban, possibly a North Star with the ancient Egyptians, is actually a pair of stars. NASA astronomers recently disc…
17-year-old student discovered a new planet
After three days of practice at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Scarsdale High School students found a new exoplanet in the TOI 1338 star system.
Detect planets that may contain life 100 light-years from Earth
TESS, NASA's 'planetary hunt' program, has found a first habitable exoplanet about the size of Earth, orbiting a star about 100 light-years from us.
Discovered 'gas planet' 464 times larger than Earth
NASA's alien world hunter TESS continues to discover two giant planets, where one year is only 1.64 to 3.7 Earth days long.
NASA satellite photographed comet explosion in outer space
The explosion released about one million kilograms of matter and could leave a pit 20 meters in diameter on the surface of the comet Wirtanen.
Found a way to spot the 9th planet in the Solar System?
A team of scientists believe they have found a way to trace the mysterious 9th Planet in the Solar System.
NASA's planet hunter finds a black hole ripping apart a star
TESS, NASA's $ 200 million telescope, observes a black hole about 600 million times more massive than the Sun.
Discovering the 'hell version' of the Earth
An extraterrestrial planet belongs to the earth's size group, but is described as being more difficult to breathe than ... just defined hell.
Astronomers discovered that the outer planet is 3 times hotter than the Sun.
A newly discovered exoplanet is named LTT 1445 Ab, orbiting its parent star to form a newly discovered three-star system that has three times the heat of the Sun.
Young alien planet promises to decode the formation of planets
Astronomers in the US have discovered an alien planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars.
Is there a 2nd Earth, only 31 light-years away?
GJ 357 d has a temperature of about 18 degrees Celsius, completing an orbit around its star of 55.7 days.
Discover the first 'super hot Neptune'
Humans have found a form of planet that has never been observed before and nicknamed 'Superhuman Neptune', according to Science News quoted expert James Jenkins as prese…