With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

TRAPPIST-1, a planetary system 40 light years from Earth, could host a planet with an atmosphere and liquid water, but astronomers can’t be certain just yet.

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The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart Commercial fishing in a vast Pacific nature area is halted after a judge blocks a ...

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The candidate gas giant orbits Alpha Centauri A, a nearby star much like our sun. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found strong evidence for a new exoplanet — one orbiting ...

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper ...

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky, and resides in an area around its star ...

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Kanye West snaps at Kim Kardashian and declares “I’m off my meds for five months now” in the new trailer for In Whose Name?, an upcoming documentary that provides a very private look at the rapper’s ...