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Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

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A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

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NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

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During its original network run in the 1960s, Star Trek was famously saved from cancellation twice by fan letter-writing ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...