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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?
Although it’s by no means certain, scientists are slowly accumulating evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet
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
The year 2025 has been a vintage one for astronomy. In January, we were hooked on reports of a building-sized asteroid on course to collide with Earth. The risk was quickly downgraded from worrying to
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How many planets are there in the Solar System? It sounds like an easy question, but it’s more complex than you might think – and actually it’s one we still can’t answer. With scientists finding evide