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US playwright ak payne has won the 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for their play Furlough's Paradise, a tale of two cousins ...

Astronomers have discovered that sulfur dioxide may help in identifying uninhabitable planets. Large amounts of sulfur ...

This two-day event April 5 and 6 in New York features 120 vendors, talks from industry experts, and opportunities for solar ...

On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents.

Gaia, a mission designed to map stars, has accidentally become a planet hunter. Using precise astrometry, it detected stellar ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 6,000 planets beyond our own solar system. Here's how — and how we'll find even more.

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable ...

Photo by Oscar Pulliam ’25 (Courtesy Reed College) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) – A physics student at Reed College has discovered eight new possible exoplanets in the Milky Way. His name is Mohamed Jassim ...

A modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions will soon launch into an orbit around Earth. Here's why scientists are ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet WASP-121 b. The discoveries of the element titanium and ...

Chlorophyll-using organisms thrived, turning Earth’s general look from purple to green. Astrobiologists suspect exoplanets might host creatures that still rely on retinal. “If the Purple Earth ...