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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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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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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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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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Here’s what space explorations in the very distant future could look like
These are exotic vacations to outer space booked through the fictional Exoplanet Travel Bureau. …
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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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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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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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SpaceX can't wait even one second for bad weather to pass for a rocket launch with people because it could endanger their entire mission
NASA and SpaceX mission controllers closely watch weather conditions, hoping clouds will pass. But …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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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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The Egyptian pyramids may align with an ancient North Star. NASA scientists found that star undergoes never-before-seen eclipses.
She presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Monday, an…
Aria Bendix,Aria Bendix
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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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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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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…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX is about to launch a NASA telescope that could discover thousands of new alien planets
"We learned from Kepler that there are more planets than stars in our sky, and now TESS will open o…
Dave Mosher
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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…