On July 27, technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida installed a memory card containing 1,350,144 names as part of a commemorative plaque on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The names were submitted by people globally, including astronauts from Artemis II and Artemis III. The memory card will travel with the Roman observatory
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Astronomers have confirmed for the first time the existence of a rocky planet with an atmosphere that is also located in what is known as the habitable zone. Located 48 light-years away, the exoplanet (that is, a planet outside our solar system) may be the most similar to Earth that researchers have found. If it’s
Artist’s impression of an exoplanet orbiting its star. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have discovered a rocky planet that likely has an atmosphere and could support life. In an article published today in Science1Researchers report their observations of helium escaping from the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet called LHS 1140b. The finding indicates that LHS 1140b has
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an exoplanet, hidden within one of the most intensively studied planetary systems in our Milky Way galaxy. The nearby young star Beta Pictoris was already known to host two giant planets: Beta Pictoris b, one of the first
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us new insights into the distant future of solar systems like ours, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets of the universe and our place in it. Billions of years ago, a Sun-like star nearing the end of its life grew enormously in size to become a red