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Asteroid hunt by Hubble telescope using AI
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to go on an asteroid hunt. They found over 1,000 previously unknown small asteroids in the asteroid belt.
April 25, 2024
Io’s volcanoes have been erupting for billions of years
A new study reveals Io's volcanoes have been erupting for billions of years, ever since the small moon of Jupiter 1st formed along with our solar system.
April 24, 2024
Hurray! Voyager 1 has phoned home with engineering updates
Voyager 1 has again begun sending an intelligible signal back to Earth. Scientists hope they can prompt the craft to resume sending science data.
April 23, 2024
Is alien life purple? Researchers look beyond Earth’s green
Is alien life purple? Researchers from Cornell University think that as far as alien worlds go, purple may be the new green.
April 19, 2024
Venus’ atmosphere is leaking gases into space
The BepiColombo spacecraft, headed for Mercury, flew past Venus and found that carbon and oxygen ions are escaping into space from Venus' atmosphere.
April 19, 2024
Meet Gaia BH3, our galaxy’s most massive stellar black hole
Astronomers have discovered the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They call the object Gaia BH3.
April 17, 2024
How Pluto got its heart
The New Horizons spacecraft saw a heart-shaped feature on Pluto during its 2015 flyby. New computer simulations suggest an impact created Pluto's heart.
April 16, 2024
Large asteroid safely passed Earth: See pic here!
Check out the image of the large asteroid 2013 NK4 - which is about 2,000 feet (610 meters) wide - that safely passed Earth on April 15, 2024.
April 15, 2024
Did this Mars rock once lie along an ancient lakeshore?
NASA's Perseverance rover sampled an unusual Mars rock called Bunsen Peak. It is rich in carbonate and silica and likely came from an ancient lakeshore beach.
April 15, 2024
3 young planetary systems revealed by Webb telescope
NASA's Webb space telescope looked for baby planets in the protoplanetary disks in 3 young planetary systems. It didn't find any, and scientists explain why.
April 15, 2024
