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Explore decades of incredible images and videos of stars, planets, moons, and galaxies—most of which are free to use and ...

NASA finds ‘puffiest’ planets so far: ‘Comparable to cotton candy’

NASA’s TESS mission discovered two unusually puffy planets, one larger than Jupiter and one about the same size, but both are ...
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NASA's Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...
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NASA’s Webb found a planet where clouds of rock vaporize every night

A gas giant 690 light-years from Earth forms mineral clouds on its cooler morning side every orbit, only to have them ...

Salt clouds discovered on iconic ‘Pink Planet’ as scientists finally get a good look at frosty orb

Discovered in 2013, the vibrantly colored planet is one of the coldest known celestial objects ever directly imaged, and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope solves the mystery of a planet that survived its Sun’s death

A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted its fuel and shed much of ...

Cotton Candy Planets: NASA Finds Jupiter-Sized Worlds Lighter Than Fluff 1,100 Light-Years Away

NASA’s TESS discovered two Jupiter-sized “super-puff” planets lighter than cotton candy, 1,100 light-years away.
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Space Telescope Stumbles Upon Two Cotton Candy Planets the Size of Jupiter

The planets are extremely large, with TOI-791 b being about the same size as Jupiter, and TOI-791 c even larger. Yet, they ...

Astronomers find 2 gigantic planets lighter than cotton candy: "Comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam"

The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

NASA wants to send an ambitious fleet of helicopters to soar through Martian skies—but scientists fear the endeavor could ...

Earth's future revisited as scientists find giant planet survived death of its sun

The planet should not have survived the star's red giant phase—which sees a star balloon to more than 100 times its original ...