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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way
If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Milky Way's shiniest known planet has metal clouds that rain down titanium. Astronomers say it 'shouldn't exist.'
The exoplanet, named LTT9779b, is about five times the size of the Earth and has clouds laced with …
Marianne Guenot
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An ancient super-Earth offers an unexpected clue that life in our galaxy could be older than scientists thought
This rocky planet formed about 10 billion years ago, making it twice as old as Earth. It's too hot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Any aliens living around 1,004 nearby stars should be able to see the signs of life on Earth, a study says
Aliens could see Earth passing in front of the sun and notice the chemical footprints of life in ou…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists discover Mercury-like exoplanet where a year is only eight hours long
Planet GJ 367b was discovered by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Pl…
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ExoMiner, a new machine learning method helped discover 301 exoplanets
A new deep neural network program called “ExoMiner” is helping scientists in discovering exoplanets…
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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away
Jupiter and Saturn have nothing on these gas giants. The planets are several times more massive and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Earth's magnetic field first formed thanks to a magma ocean, research shows. That means more planets in the universe could have atmospheres than we thought.
Today, a swirling layer of liquid metal powers Earth's magnetic field. Billions of years ago, a mag…
Aylin Woodward
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A second Earth-sized world orbiting a dwarf star discovered by scientists
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-s…
ANI
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Scientists discover giant gaseous planet almost three times larger than Jupiter
By going through data from TESS, Jacobs helped spot the gaseous planet now identified as TOI-2…
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The first-ever exoplanet discovered was born at least a 100 times farther away from its Sun than where it is now — and has six chemicals in its atmosphere to prove it
Osiris, officially called HD 209458 b, is the first-ever planet that astronomers spotted beyond the…
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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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Here’s what space explorations in the very distant future could look like
These are exotic vacations to outer space booked through the fictional Exoplanet Travel Bureau. …
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NASA awards SpaceX a $255 million contract to launch the next space telescope, which will study dark energy and exoplanets
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to observe dar…
Kate Duffy
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detects carbon dioxide in a distant world's atmosphere for the first time
Using Webb's powerful instruments, researchers found carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet a…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA released an audio clip of a black hole, and it's pretty spooky
Black holes push waves of pressure through the galaxies around them. It can sound like a wailing al…