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Astronomers are now regularly detecting planets thousands of light years from Earth – but have we missed one in our own Solar System?

Using Webb, researchers detected several complex carbon-based molecules ...

The comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS, a rare extrasolar intruder, continues to barrel through the Solar System, attracting interest and speculation from astronomers and space scientists worldwide. Harvard astron

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Cecil Navick and Francis Bozon, captured remotely via Obstech, El Sauce Observatory, Chile, 4 May–28 June 2025 Cecil and Francis say: “We chose NGC 6164 because it’s rarely photographed, plus it’s a t

Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet