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Astronomers have found dozens of ‘rogue’ exoplanets roaming the Milky Way without a parent star to hold them in orbit. At least 70 such cosmic nomads have been confirmed, but the number could be as high as 170, a new study says. Only a few such planets, which have masses …

Pack a suitcase and cancel Netflix: the human race is leaving for Mars.  No, it’s not the plot of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but the work of Chris Mason, a renowned geneticist at Cornell University. He’s just released a book, ‘The Next 500 years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds’.  …

Due to launch in October 2021 after years of delays, the new cutting-edge telescope could allow humanity to detect life signs on distant planets in as little as 60 hours, according to early calculations.  “What really surprised me about the results is that we may realistically find signs of life …

Researchers from the University of new Mexico are sure that the depths of our satellite conceal the evidence of an ancient collision that drastically affected the course of development of our planet and could even be the cause of the origin of life. About 4.5 billion years ago something the …

January 1, 2019 American automatic interplanetary station “New horizons” (New Horizons) flying near the body of the Kuiper belt 2014 MU69. Now New Horizons continues its flight. It is expected that in 2020, the spacecraft can fly relatively close to another object in the Kuiper belt, if he has enough …

For a person it is not suitable, but there may be other living organisms. According to calculations of scientists, the exoplanet Kepler-22 could theoretically support life. And although human habitation of the planet is completely unsuitable for their conditions, it’s perfect for other living organisms. The researchers believe that Kepler-22 …

The star RZ Psc exceptionally young – only 30-50 light yearsStar RZ of Fish and then is obscured by a dense cloud of dust that was the remains of her destroyed planet or moreVariable star RZ (RZ Psc) is 550 light years and from time to time changes brightness dramatically …

Astronomers at the University of Indiana found that a mysterious non-periodic dimming of the star RZ Piscium can be explained by the presence of a rotating cloud of gas and dust. According to the hypothesis the researchers, they could appear due to the fact that the star destroys the exoplanet …

Star destroys the exoplanet orbiting around it. RZ Piscium is located 550 light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Pisces. Observations showed that the brightness of the stars from time to time drops 10 times that lasts up to two days. Thus RZ Piscium begins to …

Planets absorb large amounts of heat from the star. Most gas exoplanets close to host stars and belonging to the class of “hot Jupiters” with the mass of Jupiter or Saturn, but more of their diameter. Scientists analyzed data collected by space telescope Kepler, which was able to detect two …