The stars where "Project Hail Mary" takes place, and possibly the planets orbiting them, are very real. We’d expect nothing less from Andy Weir, whose reputation for scientific accuracy helped define ...

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Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Astronomers have narrowed down the cosmic search for life, identifying fewer than 50 rocky planets among thousands of known exoplanets that may have the right conditions to support life. Using new ...