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New research suggests that the telescope could be poised to detect an Earth-sized planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbor, just over four light-years away. While we’ve long ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal ...

This year, the number of NASA-tracked confirmed worlds discovered beyond our solar system surpassed 6,000, and several thousand more await confirmation. The milestone, reached just three decades after ...