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Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

We often focus on space observatories that peer beyond Earth. But the vast majority of satellites stare right back at us.

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

The world of Sailor Moon does not just relate to our own solar system, but the many unknown planets from the original story ...

We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...

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