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Giant stinky exoplanet smells like rotten eggs
Artist’s concept of HD 189733 b. A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found…
Exoplanets are worlds orbiting other stars
Exoplanets are worlds orbiting distant stars. Astronomer Néstor Espinoza of Space Telescope Science Institute spoke with…
Did a comet burst crash Earth’s climate 12,800 years ago?
View at EarthSky Community Photos. | John Ashley shared this composite image of Comet Pons-Brooks setting…
Artificial star to help probe a range of cosmic mysteries
An artist’s rendering shows the concept behind the Landolt NASA Space Mission. It will create an…
To find water on Mars, listen to marsquakes
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an aquifer of liquid water on Mars, deep below the…
Hydrothermal vents on ocean moons could support life
View larger. | This Cassini image of Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus is from October 9, 2008.…
Atmosphere over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot surprisingly active
View larger. | Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in near-infrared light from Webb, using its…
The Tunguska explosion rocked Siberia 116 years ago
Watch a video about the 1908 Tunguska explosion. The Tunguska explosion: June 30, 1908 On today’s…
Juno zooms in on Io’s volcanoes
The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured 2 volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of…