"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

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NASA has just announced a groundbreaking discovery: 10 new Earth-like planets beyond our solar system that could potentially ...

A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

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Researchers were surprised to find giant gas planets orbiting quite near to their stars. Yet novelists had already imagined ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

On a quest to understand how planets are formed – and ultimately how Earth fits into the cosmic picture – astronomers have ...

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with ...

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