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Kepler estimates there are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets within the Milky Way galaxy
The search for life beyond Earth and the scope of one day settling down on another planet is someth…
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NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres
The mystery of a missing class of planets has had NASA astronomers scratching their heads. New evid…
Sebastian Cahill,Morgan McFal…
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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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Kepler supernova exploded 400 years ago but hasn’t slowed down — and two pieces of debris are headed towards Earth
The star known as Kepler exploded in a fiery supernova over four centuries ago, but the resulting b…
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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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NASA spots an Enormous Planet outside our Solar System, Orbiting Two Suns and Where Human Life is Possible
Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4 billion years old, roughly the …
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A new exoplanet is the most promising candidate for a second Earth — where a year lasts 19.5 days
NASA was looking at old Kepler data from 2018 when they realised one of the planets, Kepler 1649c, …
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One Image Shows All The Potential Planets We've Found Outside Our Solar System
Kepler scientists have added 833 new exoplanet candidates (potential planets outside our solar syst…
Dina Spector
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Kepler laid the groundwork for this amazing science joke 400 years ago - and it finally paid off
When a Renaissance astronomer named Simon Marius claimed that he had discovered that the planet Jup…
Sarah Kramer
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NASA has confirmed a new class of huge 'super-puff' planets that have the density of cotton candy
But on Thursday, NASA confirmed that three exoplanets (the term for worlds that orbit distant stars…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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There could be up to 10 billion warm and cozy Earth-like planets in our home galaxy, new research reveals
But Ford's team didn't want to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the galaxy based solely…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our understanding of Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Here's why Earths might be common.
That's what NASA's Kepler space telescope set out to do. Kepler scanned the skies from 2009 to 2018…
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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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
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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
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Two Broken Wheels Crippled NASA's $600 Million Telescope
One of the wheels stopped working in July last year. With only three wheels the telescope could sti…
Dina Spector
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Astronomers caught a planet being born for the first time in a stunning new picture
PDS 70b has an atmosphere - but it's no place you'd want to visit. Astronomers who've studied the d…
Dave Mosher
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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…