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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just told Congress he's working on papers to restore Pluto's planetary status, nearly 20 years after it was controversially downgraded. The billionaire astronaut is championing the icy world discovered by American Clyde Tombaugh in 1930.
Scientists just discovered something remarkable about a small frozen world billions of miles away. A planet barely 300 miles across is wrapped in its own thin atmosphere, challenging what we thought possible in the distant reaches of our solar system.
America's most iconic highway celebrates its 100th birthday, and one Arizona town is proving the Mother Road leads to the stars. From meteor craters to Pluto's discovery, Route 66 runs straight through cosmic history.
Scientists found a massive bar of iron lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula, spanning 500 times the width of Pluto's orbit. The discovery could reveal secrets about dying stars or possibly the remains of a vaporized planet.
Astronomers just photographed something never seen before: a protective bubble surrounding a young star similar to our Sun. The discovery reveals how stars create shields that protect planets from harmful cosmic radiation.
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Gladys Mae West, who died this year at 95, spent decades mapping satellite data that became the foundation for GPS technology. Her journey from a one-room segregated schoolhouse to revolutionizing global navigation proves that brilliance can emerge from anywhere.
NASA's Juno spacecraft just discovered Jupiter's lightning strikes are at least 100 times more powerful than anything on Earth. The finding proves aging space missions still deliver groundbreaking science worth celebrating.
Fred Rogers' beloved show is coming to YouTube for the first time this summer, making 25 years of kindness lessons free and accessible to everyone. Select episodes, new clips, and compilations will give four generations a dedicated home to rediscover his gentle wisdom.
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered breathtaking new images of the Helix Nebula, showing us a preview of our own Sun's beautiful finale in 5 billion years. The images reveal 40,000 comet-shaped gas clouds, each larger than our entire solar system.
Scientists are about to unlock secrets from a frozen time capsule 3 billion miles away that's been waiting since our solar system was born. Powerful new telescopes will discover thousands of ancient objects that could rewrite what we know about how planets form.
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered that Nereid, Neptune's third-largest moon, might be the only survivor from when the planet first formed billions of years ago. This finding could unlock mysteries about how planets across the universe develop their moons.
Scientists calculated what it would take to wipe out Earth's toughest creature, and the answer is surprisingly reassuring. Microscopic tardigrades can survive almost anything the universe throws at us.
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered mysterious "little red dots" in the early universe that could be baby black holes caught in the act of growing. These tiny cosmic giants may finally show us how the supermassive black holes at the centers of today's galaxies first formed.
Scientists finally cracked the case of four giant planets that shouldn't exist, using the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal how they grew so massive in the frozen outer reaches of their solar system. The discovery confirms our planet-building theories work even in extreme conditions.
Scientists want to put ultrastable lasers inside the moon's coldest craters to create a GPS-like navigation system for future astronauts. The permanently shadowed craters near the south pole offer the perfect natural conditions for precision laser technology.