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Space.com

So using Webb’s Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument, Lustig-Yaeger’s team looked for atmospheres on a handful of rocky Earth-size exoplanets. One of their targets was a planet called LHS 475b or GJ …

Space.com

Now, in a new study, researchers suggest they may be able to explain the origin of these enigmatic worlds and also that of other rocky planets and moons, including Earth and its siblings.

Space.com

NASA’s newest tiny lunar probe is battling a thruster glitch on its way to the moon. The spacecraft, called Lunar Flashlight, launched last month on a mission to seek out water ice on the moon. The probe was also expected to test a new “green” …

Space.com

NASA has measured fluctuations in the amount of carbon dioxide released by Europe’s largest coal-fired power plant in a first-of-its-kind study that paves the way for independent worldwide monitoring of human-made greenhouse gas emissions.

Space.com

After recently passing a critical test, NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — an infrared telescope that will search for potentially threatening asteroids — has entered the building phase. NEO Surveyor is the successor to the space agency’s …

CBS News

The celestial body, known as LHS 475 b and located outside of our solar system, is almost exactly the same size as Earth. The rocky world is 41 light-years away in the Octans constellation.

EarthSky

More news from the American Astronomical Society meeting, happening this week in Seattle. Astronomers said yesterday (January 11, 2023) that – for the first time – they’ve confirmed an exoplanet, a planet orbiting a distant star, using the Webb space …

BBC News

NGC 346 is embedded in a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way called the Small Magellanic Cloud and is used as a lab to study star forming processes. The cluster has relatively low …

The New York Times

Eva-Maria Sadowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin, didn’t have a particular agenda in mind when she decided to borrow the biggest fossil flower preserved in amber ever found. “I did it without any expectations, …

CNET

Larger than the entire Milky Way, this wave managed to form a mysterious hydrogen “recycling plant” near one of space’s scariest regions. Monisha Ravisetti headshot.