Some of the most tantalizing hints in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have not been messy or chaotic, but eerily ...

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Radio waves from Earth have been moving through space for more than a century. They did not start as part of any grand plan ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

A 2019 study conducted by Lisa Kaltenegger and Jackie Faherty for Cornell University examined which nearby stars could detect ...

Robotic space probe Voyager 1, the most distant object ever sent from Earth, will reach one light day away from Earth next year, a feat that has taken almost half a century to achieve.

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...

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Recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed compelling evidence of a giant planet candidate orbiting Alpha Centauri A, a star in the nearest stellar system to the Sun. Led by ...

Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes, born in 1861, discovered Proxima Centauri in 1912, initially suspecting it as a third member of the Alpha Centauri system. At the time of this hypothesis, Alpha Centauri A ...