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A new catalog of potentially habitable exoplanets provides the framework for future observations in the search for alien life ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known ...

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A 'space potato' grown aboard the ISS went viral for its alien look, but NASA astronaut Don Pettit says it highlights future ...

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