Sometimes it is difficult to take a photograph of an exoplanet because the star illuminating it is too bright. Now there is a new 'deluminator' telescope that can block out the extra light.
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From the subatomic to the cosmic, don't think for a second that we're at the end of scientific history.
K2-18 b is now the exoplanet most likely to be habitable.
It's established Mars was once a planet with surface-level water. So with multiple MARS missions starting next year, the key to seeking out martian life may instead lie in the contents of its 'dust'.
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
We haven't heard anything from alien civilisations, but perhaps they've heard us.
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The fifth episode of the To the moon and beyond podcast series explores where we will be travelling in 2069.
As more than a million people have indicated plans to partake in a citizen 'raid' on the famed Area 51 to 'see them aliens,' a scholar on the search for extraterrestrial life weighs in on the hype.
Whether anything could live in Europa's subsurface ocean depends on what kind of salt it contains. Now scientists have found out.
The ancient question 'Are we alone?' has graduated from being a philosophical musing to a testable hypothesis. We should be prepared for an answer.
The space industry and global interest in all matters inter-planetary is growing.
We will never see 'Oumuamua again, and we may never know exactly what it is. But with the right kind of media coverage it could inspire some kids to take up a career in science.
NASA's InSight Mars lander touches down Nov. 26, part of a careful robotic approach to exploring the red planet. But human exploration of Mars will inevitably introduce Earth life. Are you OK with that?
A moon has been spotted in a star system 4000 light years away – but its structure is confusing.
Elon Musk may be disappointed by recent studies threatening his plans to go to Mars, but planetary scientists are breathing a sigh of relief.
Nearly 50 years since the first man walked on the moon, our morals are still stranded on Earth.
New research on parallel universes forces cosmologists to come to an uncomfortable conclusion.
We could find evidence of life on Europa within a couple of decades.
Using AI to search for ET might help us find things we couldn't even imagine we should look for, but to succeed we also have think critically about how we create and use that technology.
NASA and ESA have signed a letter of intent to collect samples from Mars and return them to Earth.
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