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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…
Ali Sundermier
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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…
Dave Mosher
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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…
Dave Mosher
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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…
Jessica Orwig
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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…
Cameron Manley
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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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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…