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

By applying machine learning to vast TESS datasets, researchers have built one of the most precise catalogs of nearby exoplanets to date.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, constructed from images taken by a probe ...