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Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

Water isn't just delivered to planets by comets and asteroids — it can also be forged as worlds form, a new study finds.

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Recent findings by scientists have sparked intrigue and debate in the scientific community with claims of detecting signals from a parallel Earth. This discovery, if substantiated, could revolutionize ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

A two-year NASA mission is using research from a University of Arizona team to discover the origins of the Milky Way and the universe. SPHEREx, or Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...

This video shows the habitable zone around the star HD 20794 (in green) and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more ...