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Citizen Scientists Help Spot a Potentially Habitable Planet Nearly Twice the Size of Earth
K2-288Bb is located 226 light years away.
The Kepler Space Telescope, Which Discovered 2,600 Exoplanets, Is Out of Fuel
NASA is retiring the Kepler space telescope after nine years.
Watch the Air Force Blow Up a Piece of Spaceflight History
Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 17, built in 1956, was demolished on Thursday.
Explore Distant Exoplanets With These NASA Simulations
Scientists have discovered thousands of alien worlds beyond the solar system. Here’s what some of them might look like on the surface.
NASA Announces Exotic Asteroid Missions, Fueling Space Mining Hopes
Lucy will visit six of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will aim for the exposed, metal-rich core of an ancient protoplanet.
Clouds On This Planet Could Be Made Of The Same Stuff As Rubies
For the first time, scientists observed weather patterns on a gas giant beyond our solar system.
Into the Guts of the Universe's Most Perfect Known Sphere
A new observational method offers a look inside the guts of a star, with surprising results.
How Two-Sunned ‘Tatooine’ Planets Escape Being Crushed By Their Host Stars
Earth will one day be eaten by our sun. These planets might avoid that.
Watch this Brief History of the Search for an Earthlike Exoplanet
A trip inside the “holy grail” of exoplanet research.
NASA Briefly Pushes Porn After Spammer Takeover of Kepler's Twitter Account
Enable two-factor authentication, folks.
This 22-Year-Old Found Four New Planets, Including a ‘Warm Neptune’
One planet could conceivably host a moon with life.