When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

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A study using the Very Large Array radio telescope may have discovered a magnetic field on exoplanet YZ Ceti b. Magnetic ...

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Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...

American space agency NASA announced the launch of an improved software called ExoMiner++ that is used to detect exoplanet ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...

When it comes to the search for extraterrestrial life, research focuses on the so-called habitable zone of stars. This may ...

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The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.