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Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...
An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...
The curious minds at ColdFusion reveal NASA’s discovery of seven new Earth-like planets in our galaxy. This finding expands ...
The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...
Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...
The mysterious interstellar object 3I/Atlas will pass by Earth on October 29, and scientists explain what it means and whether it’s safe.
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The exoplanet is believed to be one of the farthest known from Earth. This artist's map of the Milky Way shows the location of one of the farthest known exoplanets, lying 13,000 light-years away. Most ...
Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the Earth’s planetary formation.