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Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...

SpaceX made space history, as four astronauts were launched into a pole-to-pole orbit not traveled by any human before them.

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Astronomers stunned to find Saturn has 128 more moons in rare discovery - The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...