exoplanet
Real-Life Star Trek Planet Turns Out To Be Stellar Illusion
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Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek ...
A Potentially Habitable World Just 40 Light-Years From Earth
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Gliese 12 b, which orbits a cool, red dwarf star located just 40 light-years away, promises to tell astronomers more about how ...
Young ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a cotton-candy-like Jupiter-sized planet located around 350 light-years away is shrinking and could ...
Webb Space Telescope Cracks Case of Puffy “Microwaved Marshmallow” Exoplanet
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The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have its puffed-up atmosphere due to ...
Astronomers Uncover a Baffling “Cosmic Mystery” – A Giant Planet As Fluffy as Cotton Candy
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WASP-193b, a new exoplanet, is 50% larger than Jupiter but seven times less massive, with an extremely low density similar to cotton ...
Super Fluffy “Cotton Candy” Exoplanet Discovery Shocks Scientists – “We Cannot Explain How This Planet Formed”
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Astronomers have discovered an enormous, low-density planet named WASP-193b, which is 50% larger than Jupiter but has a cotton candy-like density. This ...
Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...
A Planet Just 41 Light-Years From Earth Has an Atmosphere and Is Covered in a Magma Ocean
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Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on ...
Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b
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This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. WASP-43 b is a Jupiter-sized planet circling a ...
Rainbow-like ‘glory’ spotted on hellishly hot exoplanet for the first time
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have spotted ...
