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The team discovered Proxima c using a technique called radial velocity. It works like this: Planets…

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …

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The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, also said the country plans to send…

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Future ground observatories like the Extremely Large Telescope, or perhaps even the Giant Magellan …