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Scientists have discovered more than 6 000 planets that orbit stars other than our Sun, known as exoplanets. More than half ...

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At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

The University of Arizona will serve as mission control for a newly launched space telescope designed to study distant ...

NASA’s AI, ExoMiner++, is scanning TESS data, flagging 7,000 potential exoplanets. Open-source and powerful, it separates ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, recent research indicates that the universe may harbor far more potentially habitable exoplanets than scientists had previously believed. This shift in understanding ...

Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question.