Three Earth-sized planets discovered in a compact binary system

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

Space Exploration in the Backyard, on a Budget—How NASA Simulates Conditions in Space Without Blasting Off

Analog missions, like those conducted at NASA’s CHAPEA facility at the Johnson Space Center, help scientists study human spaceflight without leaving Earth.
National Review

‘Rights’ for Planets and Space Microbes

Abigail Spanberger Thinks Virginia Parents Are ‘Confused’ About the Trans Issue They May Just Be Crazy Enough to Nominate Graham Platner No One Is Tearing Down the Trump Ballroom Jay Jones Sags Behind ...
Phys.org

A rocky planet in its star's 'habitable zone' could be first known to have an atmosphere—here's what we found

New research using NASA's powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere. The planet is within the "habitable zone," the region around a star where ...
Yahoo

Colorful space ‘butterfly’ glimmers with planet-making dust

This image set showcases three views of the Butterfly Nebula, featuring an optical and near-infrared view from Hubble (left and middle) and the latest Webb/ALMA image. “We were able to see both cool ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency

Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space. With a background as a US Congressman, reality TV star, and television ...
Space.com

Hubble Space Telescope spots rogue planet with a little help from Einstein: 'It was a lucky break'

"This discovery was partly serendipity! But, we believe there are many more such opportunities hidden in Hubble data." Astronomers discovered a new rogue planet lurking in archival data gathered by ...
Live Science

What are dwarf planets — and how many are there?

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on whom ...
New York Post

Rare Jupiter-sized planet discovered 3,200 light-years away using Einstein’s space-time warping method

Astronomers used a method once theorized by Albert Einstein to find a mysterious and rare planet on the edge of our galaxy. The planet, AT2021uey b, is a Jupiter-sized gas giant located about 3,200 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet

In this image, light from the star TWA 7 has been subtracted. The potential exoplanet TWA 7 b is the orange circle within the blue debris disk. NASA, ESA, CSA, Anne-Marie Lagrange (CNRS, UGA), Mahdi ...
TweakTown

GSC explains why Stalker 2's mod SDK takes up 700GB of storage space

TL;DR: Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl's mod software, the Zone Kit, launched on Epic Games Store with a massive 700GB file size due to uncompressed, full-resolution assets. This powerful modding tool ...