"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has detected clouds made of silicates, similar to sand here on Earth, as well as water, ...

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A series of studies have cast doubt on the sensational claim that "the strongest evidence yet" was found that life exists ...

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Astronomers have detected silicon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of a planet 850 lightyears from Earth, the first time the ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting ...

For now, complex life flourishes on our planet thanks to its supply of oxygen. But Earth's atmosphere wasn't always like it ...

To address this difficulty, astrophysicists from Villanova drafted in artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could ...

Rocket Lab also flies a suborbital variant of Electron known as HASTE, which serves as a testbed for hypersonic technologies.