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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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These Beautiful NASA Travel Posters Show What Life On Other Planets Might Be Like
Kepler-16b (to the right) is a planet dubbed "Tatooine" because of its system's resemblance to Luke…
Erin Brodwin
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15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that's 1,000 light years from Earth
Although this technique is a popular one for planet hunters, it's not the most reliable because the…
Jessica Orwig
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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 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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A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers finally think they know why
"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…
Ellyn Lapointe
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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…