Just over four light-years away, the Alpha Centauri system holds the closest worlds beyond our own that might support life.

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Astronomers discovered a planet 25 light-years away that orbits within the habitable zone of its star that could potentially ...

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Even if they were dozens of light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth. At least, that’s according to a recent paper published in ...

A star near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy originated outside the galaxy according to a new study published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B. This is ...

NASA's TESS has discovered an exoplanet nearly 40,000 light-years from Earth using gravitational microlensing for the first ...

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