Group set up by Harvard professor Avi Loeb to advise White House, Pentagon, FBI and American intelligence community on ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...

GJ 3378b could be just large enough and just close enough to its star to host life (Picture: Nasa) Aliens could call a planet about a 282 million-year drive away home, scientists say. GJ 3378b is an ...

Astronomers have sharply revised down the mass of nearby super Earth GJ 3378b, dramatically improving its prospects as a ...

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A recently discovered "super Earth" located around 25 light-years from our planet is not as massive as previously thought, ...

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

Using emerging radio techniques refined during and after the Second World War, the astronomers detected a powerful radio ...