13 Jan 2023, 20:11 UTC≈13,400 views55 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
Another Earth-size exoplanet discovered in habitable zone of nearby star
The planet, named TOI 700 e, is one of four known planets orbiting a cool star approximately 100 light-years away. The planet was discovered by NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
NASA’s planet-hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has discovered a second Earth-size planet w…
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11 Jan 2023, 17:46 UTC≈9,660 views30 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
How the James Webb Space Telescope changed astronomy in its first year.
After decades of planning and billions of dollars spent, here’s how the new space observatory is already transforming the way we study the cosmos.
Despite the debates over the telescope’s naming and history, one thing has become abundantly clear this year — the scientific ability of JWST is remarkable. Beginning its science operations in July 20…
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10 Jan 2023, 16:05 UTC≈6,320 views24 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
The UK’s first-ever rocket launch ends in failure
The LauncherOne rocket was successfully released from the modified 747 but later experienced an anomaly.
What should have been a historic moment for the UK ended in failure last night after an undisclosed “anomaly” prevented the country’s satellite mission from reaching orbit. The Virgin Orbit “Start Me Up” mission was the first-ever rocket launched from British soil…
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8 Jan 2023, 18:46 UTC≈5,190 views15 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
Amazing photos of gorgeously green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZFT)
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF is already putting on a show as it makes its way through our solar system.
The Comet C/2022 E3 (ZFT) could put on an amazing show for skywatchers January and February 2023, when it could become visible to the unaided eye in the night sky.
Discovered in March 2022 by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the comet is making its first close pass b…
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5 Jan 2023, 16:50 UTC≈4,280 views14 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Video
Massive eruption explodes from the sun
A massive eruption of magnetized particles burst from the sun on Tuesday (Jan.3), accompanied by a powerful six-hour-long solar flare.
The eruption, a so-called coronal mass ejection (CME), emerged from a sunspot on the far side of the sun, and will not hit Earth, experts say. CMEs are clouds of highly charged particles from the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona. If directed …
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3 Jan 2023, 18:15 UTC≈3,410 views9 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
The first launch of 2023 for a SpaceX Falcon 9 was the booster's record-tying 15th flight.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched into a brilliant blue sky this morning (Jan. 3) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying 114 satellites to orbit — the second-most spacecraft ever lofted on a single mission.
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2 Jan 2023, 17:50 UTC≈3,380 views15 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
Keep your eyes peeled for this comet in 2023
This could be the first comet visible to the unaided eye since 2020.
Here’s something to look forward to in the new year: 2023 could give us a once-in-a-generation chance to see a new comet grace our skies.
Stargazers can keep their eyes peeled for Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) throughout January and early February, although they’ll need a telescope or binoculars to spot it at f…
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30 Dec 2022, 12:53 UTC≈3,030 views12 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
The most distant spacecraft in the solar system — Where are they now?
Humans have been flinging things into deep space for 50 years now, since the 1972 launch of Pioneer 10. We now have five spacecraft that have either reached the edges of our solar system or are fast approaching it: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons.
Most of these probes have defied their expected deaths and are still o…
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28 Dec 2022, 16:37 UTC≈2,610 views12 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
15 times black holes surprised us in 2022
An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a behemoth dubbed Sagittarius A*, revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope on May 12, 2022.
Black holes are giant warps in space and time whose pitch-black nature keeps them mysterious. Yet scientists continue to push their understanding of the objects in deep space.
Over the past year, astronomers have …
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26 Dec 2022, 09:44 UTC≈2,630 views7 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Winter on Mars looks beautiful in this festive NASA video
"We see spider-shaped features, fans, geysers, Dalmatian spots, fried eggs, all kinds of unique objects," NASA says.
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23 Dec 2022, 08:01 UTC≈3,000 views15 reactionsread 20 August 2026 Photo
2022: a space yearbook
There was a lot going on in the space industry this year — here are some of the highlights.
It was a good year for space. NASA finally got its long-anticipated Moon rocket off the ground, SpaceX beat its annual record for space launches in July, and JWST continued to bring us picture after picture of the wonders of the cosmos.
That’s not to say everything ran smoothly — there were definitely …
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