NASA recently announced that it had detected more than 5,000 exoplanets, so we asked astronomers, actors and an astronaut to share their favorite worlds orbiting distant stars.
Tag: Space and Astronomy
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Hubble Space Telescope Spots Oldest and Farthest Star Known
Its light twinkled some 900 million years after the Big Bang, astronomers say.
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U.S. and Russian Astronauts Land on Earth Together Amid War in Ukraine
Mark Vande Hei and two Russian counterparts returned from the International Space Station, where cooperation between NASA and Russia’s space agency continues despite the invasion of Ukraine.
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Ice Volcanoes Reshape Pluto and Hint at a Hidden Ocean
Signs of cryovolcanic activity on the dwarf planet in the recent geological past must be driven by an underground body of water, a study suggests.
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NASA Plans to Give SpaceX Some Company on the Moon
The agency will seek bids for future lunar landing spacecraft from companies other than SpaceX, which won the first contract to return American astronauts to the moon.