NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds clues to a century-old cosmic ray mystery near Jupiter

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through ...
Smithsonian Magazine

See a Diamond Planet, an Exploding Star and a Black Hole Up Close in a New Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...
KXAN

10,000 new planets? Researchers find hidden worlds in NASA telescope data

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Space just got a lot more crowded: scientists said they’ve uncovered about 10,000 new exoplanet candidates hidden in NASA data. A new research paper published this month in the ...
Yahoo

NASA’s new telescope will scan 100 million stars for planets

NASA’s next big planet hunter is designed to explore regions of the galaxy that almost no one has looked at or studied. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now fully assembled (after construction ...
Phys.org

AI approach uncovers dozens of hidden planets in NASA's TESS data

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have validated over 100 exoplanets, including 31 newly detected planets, using a new artificial intelligence tool applied to data from NASA's Transiting ...
Nature

‘Make Pluto a planet again’? NASA chief revives debate that divides astronomers

Many of us are old enough to have grown up with the idea of nine planets orbiting the Sun. In 2006, however, a controversial decision in the astronomy community resulted in the official list being cut ...