Cotton-candy planets and metal rain: NASA finds some of the strangest worlds in space

Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost ...
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Blue Origin and NASA team up on asteroid-hunting plan to protect Earth

NASA is expanding its work with commercial space companies, including Blue Origin, as the agency advances efforts to find and track asteroids that could threaten Earth. Blue Origin’s current NASA work ...
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JPL’s Deep Space Network team’s latest mission: Keeping Artemis II connected to Earth

It’s the farthest long-distance phone call in the known universe. When the astronauts of the Artemis II mission embark Wednesday on their scheduled journey beyond Earth’s orbit, in order to phone home ...
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Here's what we know about the real alien planet inspiring 'Pluribus'

Astronomers do not have a photo of Kepler-22b, but they used the so-called 'transit method' to detect it from 640 light-years away. Credit: NASA / Ames / JPL-Caltech illustration In Apple TV’s ...