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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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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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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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We're obsessed with this visualization of all the 'Goldilocks' planets ever found
While it doesn't mean all these planets have the other conditions necessary to support life (like w…
Kelly Dickerson
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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 discover a possible water world in the search for a habitable planet, report says
A group of Canadian researchers have said the exoplanet, known as TOI-270 d, would likely be too wa…
Cameron Manley
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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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Scientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth for the first time. That planet is now our best bet for finding alien life.
"Habitability as we understand it is a very Earth-centric concept. So we know one world that is hab…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Found! The Oldest Known Alien Planet That Could Support Life
Artistic representation of the potentially habitable world Kapteyn b with the globular cluster Omeg…
Dina Spector
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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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The most awe-inspiring scientific discoveries of the decade include the 'God particle,' the first image of a black hole, and the ability to edit the human genome
In the last decade, scientists around the world pulled off impressive feats: They imaged a supermas…
Aylin Woodward
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How The New Mega-Earth Will Change Our Search For Extraterrestrial Life
With these two extraordinary facts in hand, scientists may want to rescan solar systems with giant …
Leslie Baehr
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Here's why it's so weird that we haven't found aliens yet
Think about it. Even if life is incredibly rare, it should have arisen somewhere in our galaxy alon…
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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 reason some scientists think we've never found aliens implies humans could go extinct sooner than we realize
"In a universe that is many billions of years old, with star systems separated as much by time as b…