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Thirty years ago, on a crisp October day in 1995, two Swiss astronomers changed the course of cosmic history. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, working at the University of Geneva, announced the ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The recent and much-ballyhooed "planetary parade" was an interesting celestial event that likely ...