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Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

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A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Because this planet is relatively close to Earth and orbits a bright star, it is a perfect target for future telescopes.

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

There may be something about Earth’s remote places that root many of humanity’s greatest achievements in space. John Glenn ...

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

HWO will be the first space telescope built to find potentially habitable planets and analyze their atmospheres for signs of ...