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Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
Jupiter-size planets orbiting close to their stars have upended ideas about how giant planets form. Finding…
Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
This video looks at advances in hurricane forecasting, with a focus on the contributions from weather…
NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite observed a huge Saharan dust plume streaming over the North Atlantic Ocean,…
Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywire
As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of…
NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Fire Season in Full Swing in Arizona and New Mexico
It is still relatively early in the wildfire season out West but already wildfires are crossing…
X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
Astronomers have reported the first detection of X-rays from the earliest phase of evolution of a…
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
NASA scientists decided to explore whether — hypothetically — there are ocean planets in the Milky…
4,000th Comet Discovered by ESA & NASA Solar Observatory
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar…
Future Space Travelers May Follow Cosmic Lighthouses
In the future, space explorers may receive navigational guidance from the steady signals created by pulsars. …