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Scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable, Earth-size planet
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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 ...
Citizen scientists find remarkable exoplanet, name it after Harry Potter character
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Citizen scientists searching through data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a record-breaking world, and gave it a ...
Potentially habitable ‘super-Earth’ spotted 137 light-years away
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NASA exoplanet telescope discovers ‘super-Earth’ in its star’s Goldilocks zone
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a relatively nearby red dwarf ...
James Webb Space Telescope could look for ‘carbon-lite’ exoplanet atmospheres in search for alien life
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When it comes to detecting the presence of liquid water on planets outside the solar system, and thus the conditions needed for ...
Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
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Imagine you’re a farmer searching for eggs in the chicken coop – but instead of a chicken egg, you find an ostrich ...
Massive exoplanet orbiting small star upends planet formation theories
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Humans Are Ready to Find Alien Life
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In the thousands of years that people have been arguing about whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, one thing has been ...
