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Scientific American Is It a Planet? Astronomers Spy Promising Potential World around Alpha Centauri The candidate could be a “warm Neptune” or a mirage. Either way, it signals the dawn of a revolution in astronomy Print Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighboring star system, rises above a unit of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO Advertisement For the first time ever, astronomers may have glimpsed lig...

Potential Saturn-sized exoplanet with a mass 50 times of Earth that may be suitable for life is discovered 4.4 light years from our planet Scientists and the Breakthrough Watch/NEAR have developed new capabilities to directly image planets that could potentially harbor life within the habitable Using the new system, they discovered a potential  exoplanet in a star system The data suggests it is a Neptune- to Saturn-sized planet in Alpha Centauri The system is capable of blocking unwanted noise...

  Since 1995 when exoplanet explorers from the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz –who were recently awarded half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a planet orbiting a sunlike star named 51 Pegasi– thousands of extrasolar planets have been found, including potentially Earth-like worlds, along with bizarre objects that bear no resemblance to any of the planets in our solar system. Twenty-Six Years Later… Twenty-six years later, it is ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Alpha Centauri A (left) and Alpha Centauri B imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Located in the constellation The Centaur, at a distance of 4.3 light-years, the pair of stars... view more  Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble Imaging planets orbiting around nearby stars, which could potentially harbour life, has become a possibility thanks to the progress made in observational methods by an international team of astronomers. First candidate: Alpha Centauri, a system similar to our...

Artists conception of the exoplanet Proxima b, orbiting Proxima Centauri (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser) Late in 2020—remember 2020? We had so much fun—astronomers reported radio signals from Proxima Centauri, which, as you know, is at present  the closest star to the Sun. This sort of thing cannot be due to aliens (of course)… but just suppose it were. If the signal is from entities native to the Proximan system (which is now known to have at least two worlds, one of which is a terrestrial...

How Living in Space Will Change the Way We Age Allure 2/7/2021 © Design by Clara Hendler For many, the SpaceX flight takeoff to the International Space Station (ISS) last November 15, brought on not only a feeling of awe but also a pang of jealousy. Between global warming, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the tense political climate, wanting to move to outer space is fairly unsurprising. But before anyone hops in that SpaceX rocket on a one-way trip to Mars or lays claim to a Proxima Centauri b p...

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The claim of an intercepted signal, if it turns out to be truly sign of extraterrestrial intelligence, woul...

Americans can plan for the pandemic’s end in the fall. What happens between now and then?

Life goes on for the billions left behind after the humanity-saving colony mission to Proxima Centauri leaves Earth orbit… but what’s the point? We’re delighted to reveal the cover of R.W.W Greene’s upcoming sci-fi Twenty-Five To Life and not only that, but we are giving you a taster of what’s to come with an excerpt of Chapter One! In Twenty-Five To Life, Julie Riley is two years too young to get out from under her mother’s thumb, and what does it matter? She’s over-educated, u...