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Time-Lapse Of The Outer Solar System Planets Spinning View From The Hubble Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...
NASA Takes Advantage of Planetary Alignment to Take a Peek at Uranus
A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.
Space.com11h
Can Hubble still hang? How the space telescope compares to its successors after 35 years of cosmic adventures
"It's amazing that after 35 years, Hubble still holds a unique capability as a top workhorse for science discoveries and ...
Planets align for smiley face in the night sky over NYC this week
Get ready to put a smile on your face and have the sky smile back when the planets align over New York City this week. Venus, ...
The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSN13h
NASA Studies Uranus’ Atmosphere in Rare Occultation
NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets first images of 'strikingly complicated' asteroid that will shed light on early solar system
NASA has released the Lucy spacecraft's first close-up images of asteroid Donaldjohanson, revealing a peanut-shaped rock that could shed light on how planets formed in our solar system.
Smithsonian Magazine15h
Scientists Strive to Explain the Strange Weather on Other Planets
Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...
IFLScience18h
Rare Alignment Gives NASA A Chance To Peer Into Uranus
Uranus is an ice giant planet with a thick atmosphere over a hot mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices. Humanity has ...
The Debrief18h
NASA’s TESS Spots Evaporating Planet in Death Spiral That’s Producing a Comet-Like Tail
A distant exoplanet is quickly disintegrating 140 light-years from Earth, spotted by MIT astronomers through NASA's TESS ...
Smithsonian Magazine19h
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Just Flew by a Strange, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid. See the New Images From the Approach
The close-up views of asteroid Donaldjohanson are a preview of what’s to come for Lucy on its 12-year quest to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
NASA's Lucy spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the ...