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Why is China building a base on the Moon?
With a long-term vision mapped out through 2050, China’s space agencies are setting the stage for a…
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Using the Webb telescope, scientists may have found the ‘best bet’ for an ocean world outside our solar system!
Among all known temperate exoplanets, this is possibly the most promising candidate for confirming …
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Astronomers find planet that seems too humongous to be orbiting its parent star!
A group of astronomers has identified a planet over 13 times the mass of Earth in orbit around an u…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope detects water vapor on hot, Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a distant star
NASA's new telescope is already peering into the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. This …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope remind us, yet again, how improbable it is that we're alone in the universe
Webb's first deep field image is a reminder that the universe is full of galaxies with diverse worl…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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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 James Webb Space Telescope will spend its first year looking for primordial galaxies, gold-forging explosions, and habitable planets
NASA is about to launch the world's most powerful space telescope. Webb's first year of science cou…
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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A newly found ‘super’ Earth only takes 2.4 days to complete a year
That means where Earth takes 365.25 days to complete a year, this new super Earth does in less than…
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Raindrops on other planets could be key in search for life beyond the solar system
Finding another planet that can support human life is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But …
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A Sun-like star and two exoplanets 300 light-years away could reveal how Earth’s solar system came to be
The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught the first-ever direct photograph of a solar system that l…
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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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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 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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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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We spoke to the 1st astronomer to ever directly detect an exoplanet - here's how he thinks we'll find aliens
"If you look back in written history, even the Greeks were writing about whether we were alone in t…
Ali Sundermier
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16 recently discovered exoplanets could offer our best chance of finding alien life outside the solar system
The telescope used what's known as the transit method to look for exoplanets (worlds outside our so…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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The best candidate for an Earth-like planet is also the farthest one detected yet — and it has a Guinness World Record to prove it
There’s only a handful of planets that fit the profile of being a potential second-home for …
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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…