NASA successfully joins sunshade to Roman Observatory's 'exoskeleton'
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover—a ...
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Jupiter In High Definition Created From Hubble Space Telescope Imagery
Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
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Hubble View Of Runaway Black Hole Leaves Massive Streak Of Stars In Its Wake
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...
A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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Stellar recognition for UD’s Matthaeus
William Matthaeus, the Martin A. Pomerantz Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, has won UD’s highest faculty honor — the Francis Alison Award — in recognition of his ...
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First Ever Planet Orbiting a Hypervelocity Star Found in Our Galaxy
How fast can solar systems orbit our Milky Way Galaxy? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as an internation | Space ...
Astronomers discover speediest planet system ever moving at 'incredible' 1.2 MILLION mph through space
Astronomers may have discovered the fastest-moving planet system ever found, moving through our galaxy at speeds of at least ...
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Solar flares in May 2024 revealed Earth’s vulnerability to space weather
After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO and chief scientist at Space Environment Technologies, is ...