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Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists continue to mine data gathered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, retired in 2018, and continue to turn up ...

4 hours ago

NASA

Discovery Alert: An Ice-Cold Earth?

Space.com

Astronomers discover the 'growing pains' of teenage exoplanets

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link."

4 hours ago

Space.com

Astronomers discover the 'growing pains' of teenage exoplanets

NASA

NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings

A team of NASA scientists deployed on an international mission designed to better understand severe winter storms. The North American Upstream Feature-Resolving and Tropopause Uncertainty Reconnaissance Experiment, or NURTURE, is an airborne campaign that uses a suite of remote sensing instruments to ...

5 hours ago

NASA

NASA Science Flights Venture to Improve Severe Winter Weather Warnings

NASA

Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter

This image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, containing nearly 800,000 galaxies, is overlaid with a map of dark matter, represented in blue. Brighter blue areas indicate a higher density of dark matter. Researchers used Webb data to find the dark matter — which is invisible — via its gravitational ...

5 hours ago

NASA

Webb Data Reveals Dark Matter

NASA

Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) Determinations

2026 Leaders for a Better Louisiana at Adams and Reese 1.28.26 California Manufacturers and Technology Association Reception 1.23.26 Goddard Memorial Dinner 3.13.26 ISS 25th Anniversary 1.19.26 2026 Amentum Artemis II Rollout Reception 1.14.26 Maryland Space Business Roundtable 1.14.26 2025 Commercial ...

6 hours ago

NASA

Widely Attended Gatherings (WAGs) Determinations

Space.com

NASA gets new F-15 fighter jet to chase its X-59 'quiet' supersonic aircraft

What role will F-15 jets play in the future of supersonic flight?

6 hours ago

Space.com

NASA gets new F-15 fighter jet to chase its X-59 'quiet' supersonic aircraft

NASA

NASA’s Juno Measures Thickness of Europa’s Ice Shell

Results from the solar-powered spacecraft provide a new measurement of the thickness of the ice shell encasing the Jovian moon’s ocean. Data from NASA’s Juno mission has provided new insights into the thickness and subsurface structure of the icy shell encasing Jupiter’s moon Europa. Using the ...

7 hours ago

NASA

NASA’s Juno Measures Thickness of Europa’s Ice Shell

NASA Space Station

Crew Studies Robotics and Virtual Reality Advancing Space Tech

Robotics and virtual reality filled the science schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as the Expedition 74 crew promoted education and explored human research. The orbital trio also inspected safety equipment, worked on cargo swaps, and conducted Earth observations.

7 hours ago

NASA Space Station

Crew Studies Robotics and Virtual Reality Advancing Space Tech

Space.com

Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket review

The Lego Technic NASA Artemis has a few nifty tricks up its sleeve.

9 hours ago

Space.com

Lego Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket review

Space.com

Help defend Earth from asteroids with your Unistellar telescope

Unistellar co-founder tells Space.com about how citizen scientists are using smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense.

9 hours ago

Space.com

Help defend Earth from asteroids with your Unistellar telescope

Space.com

See the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades swim in the light of a waxing moon at sunset tonight

The moon will be closest to the Pleiades in the hours following sunset.

9 hours ago

Space.com

See the 'Seven Sisters' of the Pleiades swim in the light of a waxing moon at sunset tonight

NASA

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left) in the Serpens Nebula in this image released on Jan. 21, 2026. Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system ...

10 hours ago

NASA

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Crystal-Spewing Protostar

Space.com

Carson RD 10x50 binocular review

The Carson RD 10x50 binoculars are a good all-rounder, but didn't shine when it came to stargazing.

11 hours ago

Space.com

Carson RD 10x50 binocular review

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New York Times Space

Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Completes Giant Rocket’s Slow Ride to Launchpad

The Space Launch System and Orion capsule were transported to the launchpad before an astronaut mission that could launch as soon as Feb. 6.

1 day ago

New York Times Space

Artemis II Moon Mission: NASA Completes Giant Rocket’s Slow Ride to Launchpad