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NASA scientists have just identified mysterious shapes flying above the Earth but, don’t worry, this doesn’t mean that aliens are about to strike.Using an imaging instrument called the Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD), the experts uncovered strange X and C shapes, which have been cropping up in surprising places at surprising times.The researchers found the structures dancing around the ionosphere – the area where Earth’s atmosphere meets space – and say that the discovery could help improve radio communications and space weather forecasts.The ionosphere – which sits around 50 to 400 miles (roughly 80 to 644 kilometres)...

NASA scientists discover strange structures hovering above Earth

An international team of astronomers employing NASA’s Webb Space Telescope captured an exoplanet 12 light years away, and in a location that may be familiar to fans of science fiction. The alien planet orbits the K-type star Epsilon Indi A, which is around the same age as Earth’s Sun, but is slightly cooler.

NASA's Image Of An Alien Planet 12 Light Years Away Gives Astronomers Chills

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Seven years ago, the Cassini mission ended when the spacecraft dramatically crashed into Saturn, but the data it collected is still delivering results, revealing the secrets of Titan's oceans.

Before plunging to its death, NASA's Cassini spacecraft saw secrets in the seas of Saturn's moon Titan

The Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is a fascinating star. It’s a red supergiant more than six hundred times the diameter of the Sun, making it one of the largest stars known to astronomers and one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Despite being only 10 million years old, Betelgeuse has already exhausted the hydrogen fuel in its core and is now in the final stage of its life. Eventually, gravity will cause the core to collapse, resulting in a spectacular supernova explosion. This explosion will be so massive and violent that, even though Betelgeuse is 650 light-years away from Earth, it will illuminate the night sky as brightly as the full moon for up to three months. However, we will not witness this dramatic event, as astronomers predict it won’t occur for another 100,000 years.

A Short History of Supernova Observations

NASA was reporting late Friday that an asteroid the size of an airplane traveling at an incomprehensible speed is headed Earth's direction, though it is unlikely to make contact, scientists said. The asteroid, named 2024 NB2, will get as close as 2,390,000 miles from Earth as it passes through the...

Asteroid headed toward Earth at remarkable speed

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Asteroid 2024 MT1 is headed towards Earth at over 40,000 MPH and will pass by our planet on Monday, on July 8 at a range of just 936,000 miles, meaning that NASA has classified it as being “Potentially Hazardous.” While 936,000 miles may sound like a long distance and nothing to really be concerned about, […]
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A Giant Asteroid Going Over 40,000 MPH Is Headed Towards Earth

Binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is about to go nova any day now. The recurrent nova explodes approximately every 79 or 80 years.

Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now

Researchers made a tantalizing discovery after they MacGyver-ed old data from a radar instrument on a satellite gathered 14 years ago from the Moon. When they used the mission data in a fresh new way, they found proof of a Moon cave hiding in plain sight. The cave is inside...

Scientists Just Found Evidence for Hidden Passageways Under the Moon’s Surface

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Social media users claimed NASA initiated a "planetary defense exercise" to prevent the impact.

Fact Check: Posts Claim NASA Warned of a 72% Chance Asteroid Will Hit Earth in 2038. NASA Begs To Differ

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The object orbits just 0.1 light-years from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our Galaxy

Astronomers have identified thousands of exoplanets among the stars, but very few have been directly imaged. We can add another to that exclusive list thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has used NASA's flagship telescope to take a look at a nearby star, and they found a surprise. The star, called Epsilon Indi A, is home to the coldest and oldest exoplanet ever imaged.

James Webb Space Telescope Directly Images Coldest Planet Yet

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A galaxy frozen in time has been hailed as the missing link in black hole formation, discovered using 500 photographs

NASA’s Hubble Telescope discovers closest black hole to Earth –changing our understanding of space

The newly discovered planet, identified by volunteer planet hunters and confirmed by scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues, has an exceptionally long orbit. This discovery provides valuable insights into planetary formation and stability within multi-star systems. Astronomers and citizen scientists have identified a planet within the habitable zone...

New Habitable Zone Planet Found in Unusual Star System

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Analyzing data gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists discovered that an exoplanet named HD 189733 b, contains hydrogen sulfide.

Scientists make surprising announcement about Jupiter-like exoplanet

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The asteroid will reach a distance that is uncomfortably close to earth

NASA reports 100-foot asteroid zooming toward Earth at astounding speed

Is it possible that one day we could make Mars like Earth? –Tyla, age 16, Mississippi. When I was in middle school, my biology teacher showed our class the sci-fi movie Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The plot drew me in with its depiction of the “Genesis...

Could We Turn Mars Into Another Earth? Here’s What It Would Take to Terraform the Red Planet

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SpaceX announced that 20 satellites, launched from a Falcon 9 rocket in California, will crash back to Earth due to a malfunction. The second stage of the rocket experienced a liquid oxygen leak, preventing the Merlin Vacuum engine from completing its second burn. Official statement from SpaceX. In a statement,...

20 satellites to crash on Earth as SpaceX rocket accident leaves the satellites in the wrong orbit

From intense solar storms, to helping reveal the history of the Red Planet, the Mars Curiosity rover has led a very interesting life thus far. Now, a new finding has left NASA scientists shocked after the Curiosity rover cracked open a rock it ran over and unveiled something never before seen on the Red Planet.

NASA's Mars Rover Leaves Scientists Stunned After Finding A Surprise In A Martian Rock

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From the Peacock constellation and Crab Nebula to the Bat Shadow and center of the Milky Way: You have to see these stunning new images NASA dropped to celebrate its Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NASA releases 25 unseen images of Peacock's galaxy, the Crab Nebula and more

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Someone alert Elon Musk.

NASA’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery on Mars — yellowish-green crystals of pure sulfur, never before seen on Earth’s mysterious red neighbor, according to scientists.

The literal ground-breaking find was made after the one-ton Curiosity drove over a pile of rocks and cracked one open while probing the deep and winding Gediz Vallis channel, believed to have been formed by water 3 billion years ago.

“I think it’s the strangest find of the whole mission and the most unexpected,” Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity project scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory [JPL] in Pasadena, California, told CNN. “I have to...

NASA’s Curiosity rover makes ‘mind-blowing’ discovery on Mars

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JWST Discovers a Super-Jupiter: Its First Directly Imaged Exoplanet


Using JWST, astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet; a gas giant they've named Eps Ind Ab.
What's even more exciting is that exoplanet has been imaged directly...

JWST Discovers a Super-Jupiter: Its First Directly Imaged Exoplanet

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