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Jupiter ’s moon Europa, long considered a prime candidate in the search for extraterrestrial life due to its vast subsurface ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

New Scientist writers and contributors have chosen their top science-y books, films, TV shows, music, video games and board ...

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NASA has selected advanced technologies to power a future space telescope designed to image Earth-like planets and search ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...