NASA’s TESS, Spitzer Missions Discover a World Orbiting a Unique Young Star
For more than a decade, astronomers have searched for planets orbiting AU Microscopii, a nearby star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation. Now scientists…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Teams Up With Observatories Around Solar System for 4th Solar Encounter
At the heart of understanding our space environment is the knowledge that conditions throughout space — from the Sun to the atmospheres of planets to the radiation environment in deep…
Bringing Einstein’s Concepts to Life Through Art
One of an artist’s most fundamental characteristics is a capacity to bridge the gap between imagination and illustration and bring even the most abstruse and metaphysical concepts to life. Scientists…
Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping Bat Shadow
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a…
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to wonder whether any of the more than 4,000 known exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system, might resemble some of the…