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NEOWISE 2018 Data Release

NEOWISE • April 19th, 2018

The Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and IPAC present the NEOWISE 2018 Data Release. The 4-year NEOWISE archive now contains over 10.2 million calibrated...

NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Spitzer • March 1st, 2018

Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the...

New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres

Spitzer • February 5th, 2018

In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40...

ESA releases new artist views of Euclid

Euclid • January 25th, 2018

ESA has released new artist views of Euclid, the space mission to probe the dark Universe. These new images contain details that reflect the progress in the mission implementation.

A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds

Spitzer • January 22nd, 2018

The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of the many...

Citizen Scientists Discover Five-Planet System

Kepler • January 11th, 2018

In its search for exoplanets—planets outside of our solar system—NASA's Kepler telescope trails behind Earth, measuring the brightness of stars that may potentially host...