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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…
PTI
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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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NASA's new project will let you 'patrol' outer space for new planets
You can now help discover new worlds beyond our solar system from the comfort of your home, thanks …
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NASA captures an exploding comet on its hunt for planets outside our solar system
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was on the hunt for planets outside our …
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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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This new super Earth is 70% bigger than our planet, but it's also more than 50 times hotter
It is 70% more massive than our home planet and one day on the planet only lasts 16 hours — that…
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NASA's planet-hunter uncovers its first world with two stars 1,300 light-years away
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …
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Habitable earth-sized planet discovered but its Sun doesn't set for over two weeks
The Earth isn’t going to last forever. Scientists continue to debate over what poses the greater …
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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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NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope just discovered a 'super-Earth' and 2 'sub-Neptunes' less than 75 light-years away - among the closest exoplanets ever found
The new worlds also exhibit a unique mathematical quality that researchers don't fully understand y…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets. The next step is for ground-based t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This image could contain hundreds of nearby undiscovered planets - including a few like Earth
The full frame captured a much bigger swath of the southern sky. The detailed image was produced us…
Peter Kotecki
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The Egyptian pyramids may align with an ancient North Star. NASA scientists found that star undergoes never-before-seen eclipses.
She presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Monday, an…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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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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Astronomers discover three planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
An international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
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NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
The next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be …
Dave Mosher
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is dead 9 years after launching into space
That next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be…
Dave Mosher,Reuters
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SpaceX is about to launch NASA's revolutionary planet-hunting telescope - here's how and when to watch it live
"TESS will discover new potential planets orbiting bright host stars relatively close to Earth," Sp…
Dave Mosher
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SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
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Exposed: The first exoplanet to bare its core only takes 18 hours to complete a year and sizzles at 1,500 degrees Celsius
730 light-years away an exoplanet— a planet that lies outside the Earth’s solar system — is the f…