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 ...

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 ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Roman telescope could reveal 100,000 hidden worlds

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could revolutionize the search for alien worlds by discovering around 100,000 exoplanets—far more than all previous missions combined. It will look deep into unexplored ...
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 ...
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 ...