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Earth 2.0? Astronomers have discovered the nearest-yet potentially-habitable planet with Earth-like temperatures!
In our ongoing search for alien life, astronomers have scoured the cosmos, longing for a connection…
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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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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…
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Icy pebbles may be carrying water to developing planets across the cosmos!
Scientists, exploring the origins of water on Earth and other exoplanets, may have uncovered a prom…
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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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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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Arecibo Observatory is shutting down — here are some of the most groundbreaking discoveries it inspired, including one that led to a Nobel Prize
The Arecibo Observatory is one of the biggest in the world, responsible for some of the most crucia…
Prabhjote Gill
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What the James Webb Space Telescope's discoveries on another planet mean and don't mean — for the search for alien life
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope revealed that exoplanet K2-18 b may be an ocean world, and there'…
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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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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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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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 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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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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The most mind-boggling scientific discoveries of 2019 include the first image of a black hole, a giant squid sighting, and an exoplanet with water vapor
In 2019, scientists around the world pulled off some impressive feats: They imaged a supermassive b…
Aylin Woodward
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NASA and Google are announcing a 'major discovery' about exoplanets - here's what it probably is
Kepler, a space telescope that trails Earth in orbit around the sun, has stared down 145,000 sun-li…
Dave Mosher
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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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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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A planet thrice the size of Jupiter discovered due to its 'strange orbit'
It took 20 years of observations to figure out that the planet has an 'highly eccentric'…