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The first-ever exoplanet discovered was born at least a 100 times farther away from its Sun than where it is now — and has six chemicals in its atmosphere to prove it
Osiris, officially called HD 209458 b, is the first-ever planet that astronomers spotted beyond the…
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Exposed: The first exoplanet to bare its core only takes 18 hours to complete a year and sizzles at 1,500 degrees Celsius
730 light-years away an exoplanet— a planet that lies outside the Earth’s solar system — is the f…
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NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth
NASA plans to launch a mini satellite into Earth's orbit that could revolutionize astronomy as we k…
Jessica Orwig
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A Harvard professor is risking his reputation to search for aliens. Tech tycoons are bankrolling his quest.
Avi Loeb thinks the public has a right to know the truth about UFOs. He hopes his controversial ide…
Marianne Guenot
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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An incredible new 60-second animation shows where 4,000 planets beyond our solar system are located in deep space
The first pictures of Earth-like worlds may come from enormous ground-based observatories, includin…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
The next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be …
Dave Mosher
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The Chinese cyber threat is real — and India’s best defence right now is to keep its outage time limited
Wars in today’s day and age aren’t found on the battlefield but in cyberspace. Malware is ammunitio…
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SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
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A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction
But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has confirmed a new class of huge 'super-puff' planets that have the density of cotton candy
But on Thursday, NASA confirmed that three exoplanets (the term for worlds that orbit distant stars…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The human species will likely destroy itself long before the sun kills everyone on Earth, a Harvard scientists says
"I am inclined to believe that our civilization will disappear as a result of self-inflicted wounds…
Aylin Woodward
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The two most important discoveries that completely transformed our view of ET in the universe
Tarter is one of the world's leading experts on the search for ET, and while you might not know her…
Jessica Orwig
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15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that's 1,000 light years from Earth
Although this technique is a popular one for planet hunters, it's not the most reliable because the…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets - and 10 may be like Earth
Scientists wouldn't say too much about the 10 new planets, only that they appear to be roughly Eart…
Dave Mosher
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We're going to detect alien life in the next decade, but not where you might think
But in May, 2014 a pair of researchers - Robin Wordsworth and Raymond Pierrehumbert - suggested tha…
Jessica Orwig
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Super-Earths are real and they could be an even better place for life than Earth
There's just one problem leaving this tropical paradise would be extremely difficult. The escape ve…
María Soledad González Romero…
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This 'crazy' idea might radically speed up the search for intelligent alien life
If aliens are indeed looking for us - as we are for them - they're probably trying to detect a very…
Sarah Kramer,Dave Mosher
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These could be the first science textbooks students actually want to read
Munroe is a former NASA physicist-turned-cartoonist also wrote the bestselling "What If? Serious Sc…