Elon Musk Wants To Ship Humans To Mars. Is The Science On Rocketman's Side?
SpaceX chief Elon Musk is fixated on sending manned missions to Mars and he wants the humanity to colonise the red planet in ...
A world of diamonds? NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a gem-rich planet five times larger than Earth
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. The planet is five ...
This Newly Found Exoplanet Is So Light, Scientists Don’t Know What It’s Made Of
Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...
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'Rainbow on fire': Venus transforms into colorful crescent as it approaches its closest point to Earth
As Venus approaches its inferior conjunction, astrophotographers have snapped some striking shots of the crescent planet ...
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4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
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The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
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Last decade was Earth’s hottest ever as CO2 levels reach an 800,000-year high, says UN report
Last year was the hottest year on record, the top 10 hottest years were all in the past decade and planet-heating carbon ...