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Astronomer Explains Why It's So Hard To Find An 'Earth Twin' Exoplanet

One way to identify an exoplanet is called the transiting method. When a planet passes in front of …

Kelly Dickerson   


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A new space telescope is about to take an unprecedented look at alien planets circling distant stars. Watch it launch live.

Like other space telescopes, CHEOPS will watch for tiny dips in stars' brightness that are caused b…

Morgan McFall-Johnsen   


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NASA just doubled the number of known planets outside our solar system

In 2014, NASA started K2, a follow-up to the 2009 Kepler mission, continued the search for exoplane…

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How exoplanet hunters find alien worlds hundreds of light-years away and figure out if they have water

Using data from space telescopes, researchers recently found two possible water-rich exoplanets. It…

Paola Rosa-Aquino   


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This 1-minute animation will change your perception of life in the universe

Today, astronomers have detected over 1,700 extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, with NASA's Kepler …

Jessica Orwig   


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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…

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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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We're going to detect alien life in the next decade, but not where you might think

But in May, 2014 a pair of researchers - Robin Wordsworth and Raymond Pierrehumbert - suggested tha…

Jessica Orwig   


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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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This space telescope just uncovered more than 100 new planets, including a planetary system that might harbor life

"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of …

Ali Sundermier   


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An incredible new 60-second animation shows where 4,000 planets beyond our solar system are located in deep space

The first pictures of Earth-like worlds may come from enormous ground-based observatories, includin…

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A $1 billion telescope that will take pictures 10 times sharper than Hubble's is now officially under construction

But Kepler probed deep and narrow sections of the night sky. NASA's follow-on space mission, called…

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Astronomers are freaking out over this newly discovered Earth-sized planet - and for good reason

"Our ultimate goal is to find a twin Earth, but along the way we've found a twin Venus," David Char…

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Astronomers discover a possible water world in the search for a habitable planet, report says

A group of Canadian researchers have said the exoplanet, known as TOI-270 d, would likely be too wa…

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New Exoplanet Is A 'Virtual Twin Of Earth'

A planet's mass is traditionally found by measuring the velocity of its host star toward and away o…

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New Exoplanet Is A 'Virtual Twin Of Earth'

A planet's mass is traditionally found by measuring the velocity of its host star toward and away o…

Dina Spector