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How to Keep Time on Mars: Clocks on the Red Planet Would Tick a Bit Differently Than Those on Earth
On average, Martian time ticks roughly 477 millionths of a second faster than terrestrial clocks per Earth day. But the Red ...
Earth isn’t a perfect sphere. The rotation of our planet causes it to bulge ever so slightly at the equator, making it about ...
Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system ...
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JWST Catches Record-Breaking Planet Sprouting Two Enormous Tails
About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two ...
In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...
Even the best telescopes can’t see exoplanets. It’s all about watching for jiggly stars, blue shifts, and transits.
NASA’s HiRISE camera captured its 100,000th image of Mars in 2025. Stunning orbital photos reveal dunes, mesas and surface ...
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS wasn't supposed to be there — meet the astronomer who discovered it
Unlike YR4, finding earlier observations of 3I/ATLAS to model where it might have come from was easier said than done. During ...
The James Webb Space Telescope was trained on a planet unlike any other we know of, with a strange shape, strange composition ...
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Scientists discover rare exoplanet orbiting two suns
An "extra exceptional" Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns, has been discovered. Astronomers say the "huge" new world ...
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