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Using the Webb telescope, scientists may have found the ‘best bet’ for an ocean world outside our solar system!
Among all known temperate exoplanets, this is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming …
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Seeds of life among the stars: MIT scientists find complex carbon molecules in a distant cloud, pointing to clues to Earth’s beginnings!
This discovery supports the idea that life's building blocks were present early in the Solar System…
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It's official, folks! The ESA has finally confirmed that Earth indeed is still habitable (here’s why!)
The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft just confirmed Earth's habitability during its flyby. …
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Within a year of completing solar-installation training, I landed a full-time job that lets me live the life I want
Aaron Nichols' six-week solar-installation training program opened up a new career path as a market…
Erin Greenawald
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Atomic oxygen found sandwiched between layers of sulphurous clouds On Venus
Researchers found that the temperature of atomic oxygen on Venus ranged from –120°C on the day side…
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NASA launches a probe to find out if there really could be alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa
Jupiter's moon Europa is a prime candidate for alien life. NASA is sending its biggest interplaneta…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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After 8 years of van life, they were ready to settle down. They bought an abandoned watermill in Portugal to turn into a family home.
The couple says helping out with Hurricane Ian clean-up efforts prepared them for the scale of the …
Amanda Goh
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Scientists think they’ve spotted 60 potential alien power plants in the Milky Way!
Dyson Spheres, a shell or swarm of objects built by an advanced civilisation to capture the immense…
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Earth 2.0? Astronomers have discovered the nearest-yet potentially-habitable planet with Earth-like temperatures!
In our ongoing search for alien life, astronomers have scoured the cosmos, longing for a connection…
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A boomer who lived in the US and Canada before retiring to Mexico shares how life down south is much cheaper and safer
Ron Allanach and his partner Ben Lorgeranon moved from New England to Vancouver to Mérida, Mexico, …
Noah Sheidlower
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NASA scientists plan to bake, slice, and fire lasers at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx to understand the creation of our solar system
Scientists plan to methodically examine samples from NASA's first asteroid mission, OSIRIS-REx, to …
Maiya Focht
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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon may have a secret ocean, revealing a new category of worlds that could host alien life
One of Saturn's smallest moons wasn't a candidate for alien life. But if Mimas has an ocean, it cou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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He moved from Vancouver to Japan to teach English. 20 years later, he's built a life there — and a family home in the countryside.
He may be living in the rural countryside, but thanks to Japan's well-connected public transport sy…
Amanda Goh
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The solar system was hit with a gamma-ray burst so bright, it blinded scientists' equipment in space
One astronomer dubbed the high-intensity beam of radiation the BOAT: the Brightest of All Time.
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged Jupiter's rings and moons, in white-hot infrared
NASA's new Webb telescope is powerful enough to capture galaxies 13 billion light-years away, and s…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Two dozen superhabitable planets identified — some older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth
Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions mor…
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Raindrops on other planets could be key in search for life beyond the solar system
Finding another planet that can support human life is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But …
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A mysterious hole on Mars could be a jackpot of scientific discoveries, from extraterrestrial life to where astronauts could live
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged a hole on Mars in 2022 that recently resurfaced, reigniti…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig
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Hidden third stars could be making binary star system members eat each other, scientists find
Scientists speculate that the concealed third star in Be star systems might gradually compel the mo…