To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years away from Earth - and it's believed to ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered! At the same time, exoplanetologists have ...

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE and NCCR PlanetS, has discovered a super-Earth, referred to as HD ...

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A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.