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How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

This October marks 50 years since a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed ba

The number of planets discovered orbiting other stars stands at over 6,000 and counting, but that’s just the confirmed ones. Many more candidate exoplanets are awaiting verification, some of which are

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Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,

The most famous living immigrant to the United States, Melania Trump, née Melanija Knavs, was born in Novo Mesto in Slovenia in 1970. She spent her childhood in Sevnica where in 2020 the US concept ar