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"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...

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

But how well do you really know our planetary neighbor? This quiz of 15 questions will test your knowledge of Mars' size, surface and history, as well as scientists' attempts to study it. Remember to ...

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

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

MIT engineers develop a method ensuring safe operation of multiagent systems, scaling to thousands of drones in crowded ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

TNG are based on real scientific concepts. While some are purely fictional, others—like Earth-like M-class planets—are inspired by what we know about exoplanets. With thousands of exoplanets ...