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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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No other asteroid is going to get closer to Earth in the next decade than the one set to fly by on September 1
Many asteroids come and go but most keep their distance from Earth as they fly past. Now one daring…
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Researchers Discover First Earth-Sized Planets That Could Support Life
The "habitable zone" is the area in space that is the right distance from the star for a planet to …
Dina Spector
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NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets - and 10 may be like Earth
Scientists wouldn't say too much about the 10 new planets, only that they appear to be roughly Eart…
Dave Mosher
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LIVE: NASA Announces An Earth-Like Planet That May Have Liquid Water
The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized p…
Dina Spector
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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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Earth Isn't So Special Anymore
The "habitable" zone means that a planet is not too close to its host star that liquid water would …
Dina Spector
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Astronomers Find Tiniest Planet Ever
Kepler-37b, about one-third the size of Earth, is one of two other planets found in a region within…
Dina Spector
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Big, Beautiful Pictures Of 4 New Planets That Could Have Life On Them
Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates. If …
Harrison Jacobs
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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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The 12 Planets Most Likely To Contain Life
Kepler-10c isn't the only potentially habitable (or inhabited) planet out there. The Planetary Habi…
Dina Spector
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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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Why NASA's latest discovery of Earth 2.0 is so important in the search for life on other planets
Stars come in many different sizes and temperatures. There are giant stars, which can be tens of th…
Jessica Orwig,Andy Kiersz
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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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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Here's Our Best Bet For Finding Life in Space
StarTalk Radio is a podcast and radio program hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, where c…
William Wei
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Astronomers May Have Found The Youngest Blackhole In The Milky Way
The highly distorted supernova remnant shown in this image may contain the most recent black hole f…