Exoplanets
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Cultural Bias Distorts the Search for Alien Life
Since time immemorial, humans have looked to the heavens above to make sense of life below, right here on Earth.…
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Planetary Debris Disks Discovered with Citizen Scientists and Virtual Reality
Astronomers have many tools for studying the cosmos: telescopes, satellites, interplanetary spacecraft, and more. The humble human eye is a…
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With New Study, NASA Seeks the Science behind UFOs
On June 9, with only a few hours’ notice, NASA held a press conference to announce a study it was…
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Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images
The first images released from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed new views of the cosmos in exquisite, never-before-seen…
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Meet the Woman Who Makes the James Webb Space Telescope Work
“Give me a telescope, and I can come up with something good to do with it,” says Jane Rigby, an…
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Gaia’s Multi-Billion-Star Map of the Milky Way Keeps Getting Better
On June 13, at 6 A.M. ET, astronomers around the world descended on the Gaia Archive: the landing Web page…
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Our Sun Could Someday Reveal the Surfaces of Alien Earths
We now know of more than 5,000 exoplanets beyond the solar system. What we really understand about each of these…
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Ukrainian Astronomers Discover ‘Exocomets’ around Another Star
When a comet dips near the sun, it’s a spectacular and rare sight from here on Earth. Our solar system…
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China Is Hatching a Plan to Find Earth 2.0
After sending robots to the Moon, landing them on Mars and building its own space station, China is now eyeing…
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Cosmic Collisions Yield Clues about Exoplanet Formation
Some of the best movies are origin stories. When we know where a superhero is coming from, then we can…
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