When NASA’s Perseverance rover dropped through the thin Martian atmosphere and settled into Jezero Crater, it did more than stick a precision landing. For the first time, a robot on another world ...

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When it launched the James Webb Space Telescope on Christmas Day in 2021, NASA advertised it as the most advanced that was ever made. Coincidentally, it is also the most expensive telescope ever made, ...

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas giants hugging their stars to planets covered in lava or clouds of gemstones, ...

The Milky Way just got a lot more crowded — with planets. NASA on Tuesday announced 1,284 new planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, called exoplanets. That's on top of the approximately ...

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The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...