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Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined ...

Astronomers propose a giant, hidden planet beyond Neptune to explain odd orbits of distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

K2-18b, a planet more than double the size of Earth that orbits a distant red sun, is at the center of a growing debate as researchers at Cambridge University's Institute of Astronomy dissect ...

New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions ...

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Astronomers had detected just a hint, a glimmer of two molecules swirling in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b — molecules that on Earth are produced only by living things.

A team of astronomers claims to have sniffed out a “biosignature” in the atmosphere of a distant planet called K2-18b. But not everyone agrees that it signals life.