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September's planetary parade features five planets, three of them visible to the naked eye. Here’s when and where to look ...
That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.
Astronomers are researching an Earth-like exoplanet that could contain water, according to NASA. The exoplanet, named ...
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the Lasker Awards for biomedical research, how gene editing could cure ...
Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...
Early results on the fourth planet from the TRAPPIST-1 star suggest it lost its original atmosphere to space long ago, and it ...
"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," ...
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...
Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...
Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...
On the Red Planet, aurorae glow green because the charged particles collide with oxygen atoms high above Mars. They may be ...