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45 years ago this week, Voyager 1 began its journey into history

The probe launched weeks after its sibling craft, Voyager 2. Since its launch, it got a close encounter with an intriguing moon and entered interstellar space.

Inverse

You need to see the most elusive planet at opposition in the sky this month

Neptune will be at its brightest, enabling you to see a rarely glimpsed planet.

Inverse

The Webb telescope has released its very first exoplanet image – here's what we can learn from it

Did you ever want to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just returned its first-ever picture of just that – a planet orbiting a distant star.

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NASA telescope shares first image of planet outside of our solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope has shared its first image of a planet from beyond our solar system.

Daily Record

NASA shares picture of alien planet outside solar system in 'transformative moment'

Astronomers have hailed NASA's release of the first ever direct images of an alien planet as a 'transformative moment' that could help change our understanding of space

Daily Mirror

Look! The James Webb Space Telescope's first exoplanet image is finally here

NASA just released the James Webb Space Telescope's first infrared images of an exoplanet, and it could shed light on how solar systems evolve.

Inverse

The race to unearth an alien meteorite

Astronomer Avi Loeb is part of a team that's searching for traces of what could be an interstellar asteroid

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Installing rooftop solar panels can get your home insurance canceled

As electric bills surge and the federal government offers generous tax incentives for renewable energy investments, more and more Florida homeowners are seriously considering rooftop solar systems.

Tribune News Service

Aurigids: You need to watch the most mythical meteor shower of the year this week

The annual Aurigid Meteor Shower peaks on September 1 and is visible to stargazers in most of the Northern Hemisphere.

Inverse

Nasa unveils plans to send astronauts beyond Mars ahead of Artemis I mission to moon

‘Our goal isn’t to just go visit a place, it’s to bring the solar system and beyond into our economic realm’

The Independent UK

Astronomers discover planet that could be completely covered in water

The planet is outside the Solar System and 100 light-years from Earth

Evening Standard

Webb Telescope Finds CO2 for First Time in Exoplanet Atmosphere

The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: detecting for the first time signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. Although the exoplanet would never be able to support life as we know it, the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

NASA's James Webb telescope just found CO2 on an exoplanet outside Earth's solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope has used spectroscopy technology to make the discovery on an exoplanet - a first outside of the Earth's solar system.

ABC News

Editorial: Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s truly wacky idea for North Carolina public schools

Third graders who attend public school in North Carolina learn about the solar system and volcanoes in science class. Fourth graders study fossils.

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The Conversation

Scientists have traced Earth's path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust

“To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do.

The Conversation

After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning

On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looked like close-up. It was like sending a fly to New York City and…

Tribune News Service

Meteor hunt: New research reveals the life and death of a space rock

Forged at the dawn of the solar system, a fist-sized meteorite has ended its millions-mile journey, safe and secure, in the hands of Mountain View scientists.

Inverse

Do aliens exist? Jupiter’s moon Europa could hold the answer

Europa may be one of the few accessible places where life could originate and persist in the Solar System other than Earth

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Inverse

Aliens could move entire planets to send a math-based code to other civilizations

Planets could be stacked such that their orbits resonate in the Fibonacci sequence.

Inverse

A tiny meteorite holds interstellar material from a distant supernova

The Hypatia stone is a fragment of a comet or asteroid found in Egypt. Within it are materials that formed outside our Solar System.

The Conversation

Curious Kids: is it possible to see what is happening in distant solar systems now?

If a distant solar system is millions of light years away and so we see it as it was millions of years ago, how can we see what it looks like now? Parul, aged 13, Sri Ganganagar, India

Inverse

After stellar ancestors exploded as supernovae, their stardust formed our Solar System

Stardust is an important ingredient to our lives.

ABC News

Rooftop solar panels, costing thousands of dollars, deemed fire hazard

Ricky Barone installed a solar system on his roof in 2014. Since then, it has cost him thousands of dollars and years of sleepless nights. So, who's responsible?

Inverse

Astronomers plan to track more potential “planet killer” asteroids near Earth

The nightmarish possibilities of a collision with Earth motivate space agencies like NASA and the European Space Agency to scan the night for their telltale glints.

Inverse

The Webb Telescope will drop everything to observe the next interstellar object

In 2017 and 2018, scientists spotted the first two interstellar objects ever recorded in our Solar System. JWST could tell us more about them.

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