One of the boldest dreams in modern astronomy is the search for Earth-like worlds beyond our solar system. These exoplanets ...

A bold new proposal from a team of astrophysicists, led by Heidi Newberg from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, suggests that ...

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." To resolve nearby Earth-like ...

A new study finds a rectangular mirror design could uncover 25+ habitable exoplanets in just 3.5 years using current technology.

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For over 30 years, astronomers were baffled by a star called HD 44179, surrounded by a mysterious rectangular-shaped nebula. Nebulas, or clouds of gas and dust, often form around stars that are ...

Amateur stargazers have discovered an intriguing object jutting out from the surface of Mars. The seemingly perfectly rectangular, upright structure, found in NASA images of the Red Planet, bears a ...

SpaceX’s internet-from-space initiative Starlink has unveiled a new rectangular dish that interested customers can buy to tap into the company’s growing satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.