Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...

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At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...

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NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

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Scientists have just discovered four small, rocky exoplanets orbiting Barnard’s Star, the nearest single star to our solar system after the Alpha Centauri system, NASA announced. Located only six ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are ...