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Catching waves in the cosmos
Cosmic Beach is where we look out from. Onto a universe of wonders. This is for anyone who gets excited about stars, planets and the science that gets us there.
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Sep 18, 2026
Webb's MIRI instrument has directly read the surface chemistry of exoplanet LHS 3844 b, a scorched super-Earth 50 light-years away — and found a barren basalt world with no atmosphere.
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Mar 31, 2026
A Jupiter-mass world holds an atmosphere made almost entirely of carbon and helium.
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Mar 31, 2026
NASA is paying private companies to deliver its payloads to the Moon—and the race is already underway. Discover which commercial space firms are leading the charge to open lunar exploration to American enterprise.
Read the full dispatchOver 5,500 confirmed worlds beyond our solar system, from scorching gas giants to potentially habitable rocky planets.
Explore the frontiers of science here on planet Earth that will take you places.
NASA's return to the Moon aims to establish sustainable lunar presence and prepare for the first crewed mission to Mars.
Peering 13.5 billion years into the past, JWST reveals the earliest galaxies and analyzes atmospheres of distant worlds.
Astronomy · Spaceflight · Popular Science