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[ad_1] The planet is 3.2 times larger than Earth and revolves around Barnard's star. The exoplanet is 3 times larger than the Earth. Source: Atlantic Astronomers have found evidence of a "super-terrestrial" …

[ad_1] At barely six light-years away, the Barnard star has fascinated exoplanet hunters since the 1960s, largely because of its extreme proximity to us. It is the nearest single star closest to …

[ad_1] published November 07, 2018 11:12:25 Photo: Artist view of the Kordylewski dust cloud whose brightness has been improved in the night sky. (Gabor Horvath) The researchers say the Earth has two …

[ad_1] ESO's exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added more evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the center of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of …

[ad_1] Kordylewski's elusive dust clouds were finally spotted near Lagrange Point L5. Scientists have been discussing for more than half a century the existence of two mysterious celestial objects called Kordylewski dust …

[ad_1] NEWPORT – Pell Elementary School has become the first public school in Rhode Island to have a conversation with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station – with the help of …

[ad_1] NASA's MAVEN spacecraft celebrates four years of orbit and studies the upper atmosphere of the red planet and its interaction with the sun and the solar wind. To mark the occasion, …

[ad_1] NASA wants to build another space station – but it will not live in orbit around the Earth. Over the past year, NASA has begun planning a smaller astronaut outpost in …

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