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The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

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Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's ...

An illustration depicts what the surface of one of the exoplanets orbiting Barnard's Star may look like. The other three planets within the system can also be seen. - International Gemini ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

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This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...

A new survey maps nearby K-type stars and shows why these long-lived, stable stars are important targets in the search for ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Astronomers have finally pinned down the mass and distance of a lonely world that drifts through the galaxy without a parent ...