NASA’s planet hunter TESS has turned 96 slices of the sky into one map, revealing 679 confirmed worlds and 5,165 candidates

The image contains nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the Milky Way. Some mark planets whose existence has been ...
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“Some planets are darker than coal.” Astronomers have discovered worlds that barely reflect light

Some exoplanets absorb almost every ray of visible light that reaches them. Their darkness is revealing unexpected clues about the strange atmospheres surrounding distant worlds.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover just shattered the all-time off-world driving record

NASA’s Perseverance rover has shattered a historic space exploration record, traveling farther across another world than any ...
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NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images

With the first images from the spacecraft now in hand, the team behind NASA's Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat, or SPARCS, is ready to begin charting the energetic lives of the galaxy's most ...
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NASA says 7 planets will align tonight. When's the last time this happened?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's unlikely you'll be able to walk outside and see a line of planets, but according to NASA, a seven-planet parade happening ...
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Rare parade of planets to align in night sky, NASA says

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stargazers will soon have an opportunity to view six planets in alignment in the night sky, according to NASA. Mercury, Venus, ...
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In 2019, a 17-year-old found a planet on his third day as a NASA intern: It is 6.9 times bigger than Earth and orbits two stars

The New York high school student spotted a world that orbits two stars, like Luke Skywalker’s home planet in “Star Wars.” ...
Forbes

NASA Finds 6,000th Alien Planet, 30 Years After Its First

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets ...
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NASA’s Extrasolar Planet Tally Officially Hits The 6,000 Mark

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Sep 18, 2025, 09:28pm EDT Sep 18, 2025, 09:29pm EDT Four ...
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NASA photo of Mars dawn reveals cliffs in unprecedented detail

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a stunning new image of a sunrise on Mars. The photo is the most detailed image ever taken of the planet's wind-carved cliffs. Curiosity has been exploring Mars for ...
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Could Pluto Once Again Be Considered a Planet? New Remarks From NASA’s Administrator Highlight an Enduring Debate Among Scientists

For decades, scientists and the general public have argued over the astronomical status of beloved dwarf planet Pluto. In the latest salvo, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said that he was “very ...
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NASA and Inversion are working on a spacecraft that could change how we reach other planets

NASA is working with California-based startup Inversion to advance a technology that could allow spacecraft to enter orbit ...