Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...

Gleise 710, an orange dwarf star about 63 light years away, is on course to pass through the outer reaches of our solar system in about 1.2 million years, disturbing the distant Oort Cloud of icy ...

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In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), a team of astronomers identified a hierarchical system where a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbits a pair of young ...