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Justin Spilker and his colleagues at Texas A&M University have detected the oldest and most distant organic molecules in the known Universe using the James Webb Space Telescope. Justin joins Planetary Radio to talk about the discovery and what it means for …

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Jupiter-like exoplanets that are blisteringly close to their parent stars were long thought to be friendless in their cosmic neighborhood. A new study has now revealed that many of them might, in fact, have planetary companions.

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Mini-Neptunes are smaller and farther from their stars, and thus harder to spot, than many other exoplanets. Comments (0). four greenish planets in outer space. Artist’s illustration of four exoplanets. (Image credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo …

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For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know it depends — has been found in a tiny ocean-bearing moon in our solar system. Scientists combing through data sent home by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft nearly 15 years …

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By analyzing new observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by Simon Lilly of ETH Zürich in Switzerland found evidence that galaxies that existed 900 million years after the Big Bang ionized the gas around them, causing it to …

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Viewing the Martian landscape is now easier than ever before, thanks to a new map generated from a treasure trove of data collected by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The new map, compiled with the help of supercomputers and cloud computing, …

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Astronomers have discovered a new “warm-Jupiter” planet with a strange, flattened and misaligned orbit around its parent star. The exoplanet, designated TOI-1859 b, was discovered using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), …

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Astronomers studying the fastest and most dramatic nova ever recorded continue to find more puzzles than answers. Novas are sudden, bright flares of light in a two-star system created when a white dwarf, the core of a dying star that has run out of …

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Two NASA astronauts will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday (June 15), and you can watch the excursion live. Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen are scheduled to begin their spacewalk Thursday at 8:55 a.m. EDT (1255 GMT) …

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Dramatic plumes release ice particles, water vapor and organic compounds into space through cracks in the ice shell of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Beneath the ice shell is a salty ocean. NASA/JPL/ …