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No Man’s Sky now lets players dig up planets to look for ancient alien skeletons

No Man’s Sky already lets players dig deep into the terrain of its near-infinite universe of planets, but now there…

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Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been…

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World

Four tiny planets found orbiting one of our nearest stars

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there are not just one but four tiny planets circling around Barnard’s Star, the…

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Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: More Earth-like planets may exist

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation…

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Small and large planets have significantly different upbringings

The shape of a planet’s orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its…

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Environment

Never mind the planet’s fate when the jet set feel the urge to seek out some winter sun | Catherine Bennett

That I fully expect to be dead by the time the UK achieves net zero is, of course, no reason…

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Temperamental stars are distorting our view of distant planets

Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from looking at dips in starlight…

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Tech

Tonight You Can Marvel at Six Planets in a Spectacular Planet Parade

2025 is starting off with a bang for skygazers, with a planet parade coming to the skies tonight, Jan. 21.…

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World

See 6 Planets Align on January 21

Observing the planets is one of the most awe-inspiring ways to witness the magic of the night sky—and there’s no…

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Tech

NASA’s new Webb telescope images support previously controversial findings about how planets form

NASA says it was able to use the James Webb telescope around ancient stars that challenge theoretical models of how…

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