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The quest for extraterrestrial life has been a captivating journey for scientists, with the vast number of potentially habitable exoplanets in our galaxy sparking hope and curiosity. However, recent ...

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A new study suggests mysterious water worlds may be manufacturing their own oceans through chemical reactions deep within ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...

The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

For the second straight year, the Philadelphia Phillies lost in the NLDS in four games, this time to the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was a rough end to the year, largely in part due to the offense ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth. As an indelible reminder of this thrilling result, Louis Desdoigts, now a ...

"With this telescope and this new technique, we can start to understand exoplanets along the same lines as our solar system neighbors." Challener is the first author of "Horizontal and Vertical ...