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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) on Wednesday named one of the new stars discovered as 'Sharjah.'
Uranus, a giant, icy planet about four times the diameter of Earth, is made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
The red planet has the ingredients for life underneath its surface. Scientists are now looking at the make-up of Martian rocks, positing that if they were consistently in contact with water they would be able to produce the kind of energy that allows alien life to flourish.
The research team explained that the asteroids were much larger than the asteroid believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth, which was only seven miles wide.
Planet TOI-1231 b is orbiting a red dwarf every 24 days, but it could be strikingly similar to Earth.
The researchers found the radar signals in an area of Mars known as the Antarctic sediments, home to water ice, dry ice and dust.
Researchers at Cornell University discovered that the temperature of WASP-76b, which has been called the "Planet of Hell," is higher than initially thought in 2016 (4,400 degrees Fahrenheit).
Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia. It will join an American rover that arrived at the red planet in February.
Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history -- in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star's habitable-zone -- the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone.
A reddish-colored cigar-shaped interstellar object called 'Oumuamua that is tumbling through our solar system may be wreckage from a planet ripped apart .