NASA Hits 6,000 Exoplanets. Some Are Stranger Than Sci-Fi

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

The librarian who became Palomar’s first female telescope operator, and who discovered her own comets

From 1985 to 2014, Jean Mueller supported astronomers from around the world who came to Palomar to use its iconic instruments ...

Finding exomoons using their host planet's wobble

Exoplanets aren't the only objects floating around other stars—they likely have comets and asteroids as well. Even some of the exoplanets themselves will have "exomoons," at least according to our ...

NASA Confirms Discovery of 6,000th Exoplanet, Some Planets Have Strange Forms

This number is monitored by NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) located at the California Institute of Technology's IPAC. Currently, there are over 8,000 candidate planets awaiting ...
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NASA just confirmed its 6,000th alien world. Some are truly bizarre

NASA has confirmed 6,000 exoplanets, marking a major milestone in humanity’s quest to understand other worlds. From gas ...

Make like a spacecraft and fly through Gaia's 3D map of stellar nurseries

When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory.
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Scientists find major clue about how massive stars are formed

Scientists from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory have uncovered the process of gas accretion in star formation, shedding light on how gas flows towards a forming star's disk.

Scientists reveal process of gas accretion in massive star formation

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...