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Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

The question of life on other worlds has become a serious area of research, writes science reporter Ivan Semeniuk. Over the ...

There are hundreds of billions of alien worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. And scientists have already discovered and confirmed ...

The hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has shifted from counting planets to confronting extremes that strain basic ...

A new NASA spacecraft called Pandora is awaiting launch ahead of its journey to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, or ...