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Mmore Complete View of Massive Asteroid Psyche

Oct. 26, 2020 — A new study discusses several new views of the asteroid 16 Psyche, including the first ultra-violet observations. The study paints a clearer view of the asteroid than was previously ...

New Study Details Atmosphere on 'Hot Neptune' 260 Light Years Away That 'Shouldn't Exist'

Oct. 23, 2020 — Astronomers have crunched data from NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly unusual kind of ...

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NASA's SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon

Oct. 26, 2020 — NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that ...

Data Reveals Evidence of Molecular Absorption in the Atmosphere of a Hot Neptune

Oct. 26, 2020 — An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's ...

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Stars and Planets Grow Up Together as Siblings

Oct. 23, 2020 — ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS ...

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ALMA Shows Volcanic Impact on Io's Atmosphere

Oct. 21, 2020 — New radio images from ALMA show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter's ...

Ultraviolet Shines Light on Origins of the Solar System

Oct. 20, 2020 — In the search to discover the origins of our solar system, an international team including planetary scientists has compared the composition of the sun to the composition of the most ancient ...

Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf

Oct. 16, 2020 — Astronomers have detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable ...

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Magnetic Fields on the Moon Are the Remnant of an Ancient Core Dynamo

Oct. 15, 2020 — A long discussed theory about the local magnetic spots of the moon suggests that they are the result of magnetization processes caused by impacts of massive bodies on the ...

The Mountains of Pluto Are Snowcapped, but Not for the Same Reasons as on Earth

Oct. 13, 2020 — In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such ...

A New Look at Sunspots

Oct. 9, 2020 — NASA's extensive fleet of spacecraft allows scientists to study the Sun extremely close-up - one of the agency's spacecraft is even on its way to fly through the Sun's outer atmosphere. But sometimes ...

Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy

Oct. 9, 2020 — Scientists have provided an inventory of the major discoveries made possible thanks to Spitzer and offer guidance on where the next generation of explorers should point the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists Study the Rugged Surface of Near-Earth Asteroid Bennu

Oct. 8, 2020 — As the days count down to NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's Touch-And-Go asteroid sample collection attempt, scientists have determined what the spacecraft can expect to return from the near-Earth ...

Scientists Peer Inside an Asteroid

Oct. 8, 2020 — New findings from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers -- like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though ...