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NASA’s Lucy Mission Confirms Discovery of Eurybates Satellite
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has…
Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result confirms one of the fundamental…
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life
In looking for life beyond Earth, astronomers seek planets in stars’ “habitable zones” (nicknamed the “Goldilocks…
Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion
Knowing the precise value for how fast the universe expands is important for determining the age,…
Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass
Kangaroo Island, off the coast of Australia, has not been immune to the devastating bushfires that…
David Content Hopes to Answer the Big Questions with WFIRST
David Content, Payload Project Manager for WFIRST, hopes to answer the question “Are We Alone?” …
NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable…
Surprise! TESS Shows Ancient North Star Undergoes Eclipses
NASA’s TESS satellite has shown that the bright star Alpha Draconis and its fainter, previously known…
NASA’s TESS Mission Uncovers Its 1st World With Two Stars
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has found its first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars.…