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Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as ...

There are likely "tens of billions" of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, according to a study released Monday by astronomers from the University of California-Berkeley and the University ...

Our galaxy contains at least 100billion planets - approximately one for every star - and many of them could harbour life, a new study claims. Contrary to previous belief, the latest research by ...

But the universe is a big place, and now astronomers have found the first planets outside the galaxy. A group of researchers from the University of Oklahoma spotted the planets using an ...

Our galaxy has planets aplenty. Our sun possesses at least eight of them, and in recent years, we’ve learned that most other stars have some, too. But according to a new simulation of star ...

The planets are so close to it that their temperatures would be far too hot to be habitable, they said. "But red dwarfs make up 8 out of 10 stars in the galaxy," said John Johnson of Caltech ...

Now it's 300 million habitable planets! The SETI people may dream that this huge number improves their odds, but Enrico Fermi is still laughing. Just think: half of those 300,000,000 are going to ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

But not knowing was agony. This story has a happy ending, though: Now we do know—the galaxy is filled with planets. Even better, this story also comes with a twist worthy of an eyebrow-raise ...