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The planet is close enough

Wine tasting with a view? These destinations offer world-class stargazing in certified Dark Sky regions for an unforgetable travel adventure.

Canada’s Trudeau says, We trust in science How did the world get along before science?, The deadly marriage of science and politics has produced one single and terrible portent. The world has never been as unsafe as it is today

A declassified document from the NSA describes different methods for how we may communicate with an extraterrestrial civilization.

At just a quarter of Earths mass, Proxima D is the third planet to be detected in the Proxima Centauri system. It was discovered by the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The discovery of Proxima d "strengthens our belief that low-mass planets like Earth that may be habitable are quite common in our galaxy," researcher João Faria told Newsweek

Bill Nye the Science Guy discusses the longevity and legacy of LightSail 2. And it turns out, solar sails will change space travel for keeps.

At just over four light years distant, Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun in the entire Universe. We know it has one planet, called Proxima b, and there's decent evidence of a second, called Proxima c. A team of astronomers has announced there might be a third planet, now too! If confirmed it will be called Proxima d, and would be one of the smallest and lowest-mass exoplanets ever found. Yeah, this may be a big deal.

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us." -Carl Sagan

The Pale Red Dot project has found a planet.