Stephen Hawking, Mark Zuckerberg, and Yuri Milner must be overjoyed with the latest exciting discovery of an Earth-like planet in the Alpha Centauri solar system. Orbiting Proxima Centauri, one of … [Read full article]
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Stars Emerging From Stellar Nursery, New Image Shows New Stars Amongst The Dust That They Formed From
A dark ‘nursery’ cloud of dust where new stars are forming has just been imaged in a brilliant new photo taken by the European Southern Observatory. The image clearly shows … [Read full article]
New Method Developed To Learn About Alien Planets
Tau Bootis b was one of the first exoplanets discovered, just 16 years ago in 1996, and remains as one of the nearest exoplanets to us. But until now … [Read full article]
Is Anybody Out There? On Finding E.T., Remembering Ray Bradbury [VIDEO]
I was 12 years old when I read The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Don’t let that age fool you — I considered myself to be a very sophisticated reader … [Read full article]
Cosmic News: Lots More Stars than "Billions and Billions"
Counting the number of stars in the known universe would seem to be a monstrous task akin to counting the number of grains of sand on all the world’s beaches. … [Read full article]