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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?

For the first time, a study has revealed Earth-sized planets orbiting each of the stars in a binary system. An international team found the worlds around a stellar pair called TOI-2267: two small, coo

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

Space scientist Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is sure there is alien life out there – and she wants a chance to explore it

Projecting our consciousness into other bodies and walking on alien worlds might not be such a far-flung concept