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Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

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Astronomers have found four small planets orbiting Barnard's Star, the second-closest star system to Earth. These planets are ...

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S.

UChicago astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the second-nearest star system to Earth.

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

Life is tenacious and the universe is vast, so some are confident that extraterrestrial life is hiding out there. These ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million years.

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