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KELT-9b: Hottest Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Yet
Astronomers announce the discovery of bloated gas giant KELT-9b, the hottest "hot Jupiter" exoplanet known orbiting a short-lived massive star.
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New Clues on Fate of Schiaparelli Mars Lander
The European Space Agency has released its investigation into the crash of the Schiaparelli Mars lander in October 2016.
Juno: Surprises in First Science Results
From its dynamic atmosphere to its hidden depths, the Juno spacecraft has Jupiter as never before — surprising NASA scientists with unexpected complexity.
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Amazing New Views of Near-Earth Asteroid
Large asteroid 2014 JO25 cruised past Earth on April 19, and Goldstone and Arecibo radars were at the ready to capture what turned out to be yet another twin-lobed asteroid.
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Cassini Traverses "Big Empty" on First Grand Finale Pass
The Grand Finale is underway, as NASA's Cassini spacecraft sails through a clear gap between Saturn and its rings.
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Cassini Survives First "Grand Finale" Dive
Cassini's Grand Finale has begun, as the spacecraft threaded the needle between Saturn and its rings, following several fantastic moon passes and a final glance back at Earth.
LISA Pathfinder: From Gravitational Waves to Space Dust
LISA Pathfinder, the technology testbed mission for a future gravitational-wave detector, turns out to be a surprisingly good micrometeoroid hunter.
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Welcome to LHS 1140b: A Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone
The MEarth exoplanet survey nabs LHS 1140 b, a rocky planet transiting its host star just 41 light-years distant.
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Cassini's Grand Finale Orbits Set to Begin
NASA's Cassini mission nears its final act — the spacecraft will enter the first of its Grand Finale Orbits later this month.
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Rosetta Sees Changing Face of Comet 67P
Data from the Rosetta mission has linked outbursts on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with dramatic changes on the comet's surface.
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Welcome to Pan: Saturn's Ravioli-Shaped Moon
Cassini gave us a good look a Saturn's moon Pan last week... and what a strange world it is.
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A New Take on the Audible Meteor Mystery
A recent study suggests a plausible mechanism to explain why observers sometimes hear superbright meteors at the same time that they see them.
SpaceX Announces 2018 Moonshot Mission
SpaceX's surprise announcement envisions humans traveling beyond low-Earth orbit and to the Moon at the end of 2018.
Juno Will Stay in Current Orbit Around Jupiter
NASA has announced that its Juno spacecraft will remain in a wide-ranging orbit around Jupiter, extending the mission's lifetime.
NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Landing Sites
Three possible landing sites are now in the running for the U.S. space agency's next Mars rover.
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Meteorites Date Demise of Solar Nebula
A study of ancient meteorites has refined the date for the dissolution of the solar nebula, the cloud that shrouded our Sun in its earliest days.
Juno Swoops Past Jupiter's South Pole
NASA's Juno spacecraft continues to give us amazing views of Jupiter, now from its fourth perijove pass.
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Micrometeorites Found on City Rooftops
A recent study found micrometeorites in piles of dirt collected from urban European rooftops.
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Hubble Catches Exoplanet Shadow Play
A unique method reveals the influence of a planet within the stellar disk around TW Hydrae.
Cassini Spies Daphnis Making Waves
NASA's Cassini returns stunning new views of Daphnis and friends from its ring-grazing orbits.