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Discover the newly found planet scientists believe could support alien life

Scientists may have just taken one of the biggest steps yet in the search for life beyond Earth. Meet K2 18 b, a distant ...

White House UFO council will be led by Harvard professor known for controversial alien theories

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer who has made headlines with his theories about alien encounters, will lead a White House ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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This planet survived the death of its star—and kept its atmosphere

A gas giant planet called WD 1856b, orbiting the burned-out core of a dead, sun-like star. And in a new study published today in Nature, researchers report an even wilder discovery: Not only is WD ...