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BEIJING (AP) — China added a laboratory to its permanent orbiting space stationMonday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months. The Wentian laboratory was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island…

A recently discovered star, now designated S4716, is traveling at the mind-boggling speed of 5,000 miles (8,000 km) per second around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, Space.com reported. The vast expanse of our…

The very tiny motion of a small star has revealed the presence of a super-Earth exoplanet, orbiting at a distance that is close to habitable.Around a faint red dwarf called Ross 508, located just 36.5 light-years away (yet too dim to be…

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An artist’s impression of the newly-discovered planet orbiting Proxima Centauri.Credit: ESO/L. Calçada Astronomers have discovered a third planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the star closest…

One of my favorite aspects about the vast number of exoplanets detected so far — coming up on 5,000 of these alien worlds — is that with so many discovered, you can see trends in their characteristics, as well as find…

In the past three decades, the field of extrasolar planet studies has advanced by leaps and bounds. To date, 4,903 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,677 planetary systems, with another 8,414 candidates awaiting confirmation.…

Astronomers have spotted three new exoplanets orbiting dangerously close to their parent stars, on the brink of extinction. The three exoplanets, named TOI-2337b, TOI-4329b and TOI-2669b, were discovered using NASA's Transiting…

An optical/near-infrared image of the sky around the TESS Input Catalog (TIC) object TIC 400799224 (the crosshair marks the location of the object, and the width of…

Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have spotted a trio of neighboring planets similar to Earth, orbiting a much younger version of our own sun.  The team found the young, hot worlds using observations from NASA's…