A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

When inventors move to a U.S. county, the number of successful startups, especially those valued at $1 billion or more, goes ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Proxima Centauri B, an exoplanet 4.25 light-years away, may be tidally locked and exposed to extreme stellar radiation.

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

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In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

As discoveries of species on Earth as well as objects in space speed up exponentially, new technology and “citizen science” ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

Most of the exoplanets we’ve discovered have been in relatively tight orbits around their host stars, allowing us to track them as they repeatedly loop around them. But we’ve also discovered a handful ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive gas planet in a place it should never exist, orbiting one of the smallest stars in the galaxy. A newly found world has joined the growing catalogue of known ...

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