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Scientists identify nearby 'super-Earth' as promising candidate in search for alien life - study

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets around other sun-like stars,” according to NASA’s website.

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration obtained by Reuters on March 28, 2018.
An artist's concept of a dwarf planet.

Atmosphere detected on celestial body in solar system's far reaches

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McDonough Meteorite: 23-Gram Visitor Older Than Our Planet Blasts Through Family Roof

 TOI-6894b Exoplanet - artist's impression.

Unexpected giant: Saturn-mass planet found orbiting tiny red dwarf


A whole new world: UCLA scientists find 366 new exoplanets

Found using a new algorithm, this discovery sheds light on more of the exoplanet population dotting the infinite reaches of space and can help us understand how planets fully form.

The planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System, is seen in an undated artist's impression.

Astronomers were wrong about the number of galaxies in universe - study

What if the universe is a little darker than expected, with far fewer galaxy than had been previously estimated for years?

Hubble mosaic image of the Sombrero galaxy

When to trade bitcoin? When Saturn crosses Mercury, of course

For the uninitiated, Mercury represents bitcoin's price data and Saturn is a restricting indicator.

Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin are seen in this picture illustration

Prince Charles urges business to put planet and people first

"I am making an urgent appeal to leaders, from all sectors and from around the world, to bring prosperity into harmony with nature, people and planet over the coming decade."

Prince Charles

Earth is spinning faster: Time flies in 50-year record

The planet is speeding up and a negative leap second may soon be needed so atomic clocks can align correctly with the turning world.

EARTH, from Beresheet’s vantage point

Will the Biblical Star of Bethlehem appear in the sky ahead of Christmas?

On December 21, our solar system's two biggest planets will come within close proximity of one another, in what is known as a great conjunction.

A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

It's not the plate, it's what's on it - opinion

The Environmental Protection Ministry recently passed a regulation banning disposable silverware from some of the North’s nature reserves.

COWS DRINK from a trough in the fields of the Jezreel Valley in 2018. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Saturn, the jewel of the solar system

Israeli researchers, working with NASA, recently discovered some startling findings about the planet

A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

Unusual molecule found in atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan

The molecule is constituted of carbon and hydrogen, a simple carbon-based molecule that could be the basis for potential life.

NASA's planned Dragonfly rotorcraft lander approaches a site to explore on Saturn's moon