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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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There Could Be A Habitable Planet Just 13 Light Years Away From Earth
The researchers don't know if life could exist on such a planet, though, because being closer to yo…
Jennifer Welsh
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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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Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years, and they could tell astronomers what will happen after our sun blows up
Stars die because they eventually burn through their reserves of hydrogen and helium. That fuel cre…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A planet thrice the size of Jupiter discovered due to its 'strange orbit'
It took 20 years of observations to figure out that the planet has an 'highly eccentric'…
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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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An astronomer's animation shows how Earth and the moon both orbit a spot 3,000 miles from the true center of the planet
All planetary systems have a barycenter, a point where their mass is balanced. In the Earth-moon sy…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers found a 'snowy' super-Earth less than 6 light-years away - and it may be the first planet we'll photograph beyond the solar system
Future ground observatories like the Extremely Large Telescope, or perhaps even the Giant Magellan …
Dave Mosher
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Jupiter is so big it does not actually orbit the sun
For a puny, fragile planet like Earth, which is 1/332,949th the mass of the sun, the center of grav…
Dave Mosher
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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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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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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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The 10 Best Replacements For Earth
Although we are still working on some kind of vehicle get to these planets (that would probably req…
Dina Spector
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center — and it's not the sun
Jupiter, Saturn, and the sun play a constant game of tug-of-war around the invisible center of our …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Best Candidates For Earth 2.0
Although we are still working on some kind of vehicle to get to these planets (that would probably …
Dina Spector
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We've discovered 3 bizarre planets and one scientist is 'optimistic' they might harbor life
The next step, Gillon said, will be using the next generation of satellites - including NASA's upco…
Sarah Kramer
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Astronomers are pioneering a new way to find alien planets orbiting far-away stars. It led them to 6 unusual, vaporizing worlds.
In this particular system, the smaller of the two stars is on the brink of being too small to be co…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers discover three planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
An international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…