Sometimes you only need one of these big guys to come your way,” observed Julián Alvarado-Gómez of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. These comments evoke the significance of the recent ...

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Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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