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On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...
There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...
Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...
A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
Webb Telescope captures TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass planet 50 AU from its star, proving its ability to directly image smaller ...
Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...