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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

An Earth-like world with heavy clouds might not hide life at all. It could make alien life easier to spot if those clouds carry colored microbes from the planet’s skies. Cornell scientists report the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made the first 3D map of an alien planet's atmosphere, revealing extreme temperature swings on the exoplanet WASP-18b. When you purchase through ...

Aliens: Dark Descent may be an underappreciated game, but through the years it has shown to have a strong enough cult following. A new PC mod for the game, called Aliens: Darkest Descent is on the ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with perfectly synchronized orbits. It was also the start of a whirlwind of discovery.

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Illustration of exoplanet K2-18b. The planet is thought to have a thick gas envelope and no global ocean. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0. For years, astronomers have been excited about ...

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Planets without plate tectonics and too little carbon dioxide could mean that technological alien life is rare by Europlanet edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...