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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
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When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
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Astronomers discover exotic atmosphere on scorching hot exoplanet Cuancoá. 'Like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire'
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a ...
This Newly Found Exoplanet Is So Light, Scientists Don’t Know What It’s Made Of
Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...
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The special exoplanet unlike any other known thing in our universe
A peculiar exoplanet named Enaiposha challenges our understanding of celestial bodies, blending traits of mini-Neptunes and ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet COâ‚‚ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
New research on exoplanet, Enaiposha, is challenging everything we know about planet formation
A new study is challenging the science of the formation of sub-Neptunian planets, which are the most common in the Milkey Way ...
Webb Just Captured the First Direct Image of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet
Webb’s latest discovery has opened a thrilling new chapter in exoplanet research by capturing the first-ever direct images of ...
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
The discovery of a small protoplanetary disk has implications for the commonality of a particular kind of extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," called a super-Earth. These are rocky worlds that are ...