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Starfield’s 1,000 Planets May Be One Giant Leap for Game Design
Starfield almost immediately nudges its players to the edges of the cosmos. In the opening hours of the role-playing video game, it’s possible to land your spaceship on Earth’s moon or zip…
Earth was created much faster than we thought: This makes the chance of finding other…
Over the past decades, researchers thought Earth was created over a period of more than 100 million years. However, a new study from UCPH suggests that the creation of Earth was much more…
‘Under Alien Skies’ imagines what the sky looks like on other planets
Under Alien SkiesPhilip PlaitW.W. Norton & Co., $30
Why is the sky blue? I remember asking my parents that question as a kid. When the sun’s rays hit the blanket of air that…
Jupiter-sized planets are very rare around the least massive stars
If you’re looking to visit a gas giant planet in another solar system — or if you’re simply a science fiction writer who needs such a world for your story — you’d better steer…
Elusive planets play ‘hide and seek’ with CHEOPS
With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team of European astronomers managed to clearly identify the existence of four new exoplanets. The four mini-Neptunes are smaller…
One-third of galaxy’s most common planets could be in habitable zone
Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just half the mass of our sun at most.…
Astronomers discover last three planets Kepler telescope observed before going dark
More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. Over half were discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original…
A Third of Milky Way’s Planets Orbiting Most Common Stars Could Harbour Life
One-third of the planets orbiting the most common stars across the Milky Way galaxy may hold onto liquid water and possibly harbour life, according to a study based on latest telescope…
Finding Nemo: A glimpse into our planet’s oceanic depths at Abu Dhabi’s…
Express News Service
Leaping dolphins, colourful starfish, sea lions resting on rocks and walruses lazing around are just some of the underwater creatures one gets to…