Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
What we know about possible Nasa mission to ‘deflect’ asteroid heading for Earth
By April this year, scientists will start to decide whether to send a mission to intercept an asteroid that may hit Earth in ...
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ESA spacecraft uses 'wobbly' stars to discover huge hidden worlds
Astronomers are buzzing over a groundbreaking discovery made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Gaia spacecraft, which found two giant ... dubbed a “Super-Jupiter”, and a mysterious brown dwarf, ...
Scientists Just Found a Hidden Planet That’s Absolutely Massive
Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.
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Europa Clipper on a mission to probe an alien water world
Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...
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Odds of 'City Killer' Asteroid Impact in 2032 Now Even Higher, Says NASA
An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA data released Tuesday – making it the most threatening space rock ever recorded by modern ...
Why asteroid 2024 YR4 is unlikely to hit Earth in 2032 and how scientists keep track
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes ...