Even with modest assumptions, the Drake Equation often suggests the galaxy should be chock full of extraterrestrial neighbors ...

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Earth’s turbulent atmosphere makes it hard to detect new planets from the ground. Astronomer Rebecca Jensen-Clem is working ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...

A new study from David Kipping attempts to explain why we are located around a yellow star, and so early in the universe.

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An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of scientists from the Universities of Montreal, ...

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When Earth is opposite Mars from the sun, it will appear full because you’re looking directly on the daylit side. But mitigating this is its far greater distance, plus the fact that Earth appears much ...