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Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Scientists have identified three Earth-sized planets orbiting two stars in the TOI-2267 system. Remarkably, planets transit around both stars — a first in astronomy. The system’s compact, cold nature ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Scientists traced the Moon's parent planet Theia to the inner Solar System, solving a 4.5-billion-year mystery.

A nearby binary star system is bereft of giant planets, but scientists think it may still be a decent place to look for life. Binary star system Eta Cassiopeiae, located just 19 light-years away, ...

European astronomers report the discovery of a second alien world in the TOI-1422 planetary system located some 500 light ...

In Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” which she adapted from the award-winning 2020 novel by author Maggie O’Farrell, she posits an idea: what if William Shakespeare were a hunk?