We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have ...

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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced the layoff of approximately 550 employees, constituting 11% of its workforce, as part of an ongoing center reorganization initiated in July. JPL ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has gathered significant scientific attention, and soon it will reach its closest point to ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

“If you build a map at a wavelength that water absorbs, you’ll see the water deck in the atmosphere, whereas a wavelength ...

Last spring, the Department of Computer Science introduced a waitlist hiring process for fall teaching assistant applicants, allowing department leaders to take TAs off reserve when course enrollment ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

In 2017 Oumuamua became the first known object to enter our solar system from another star Its strange shape and speed defied explanation Now scientists are preparing Project Lyra a daring mission to ...

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Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...