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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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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...
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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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...
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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 ...
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NASA’s TESS telescope uncovers strange exoplanet 250 light-years from Earth
NASA's TESS telescope has discovered an intriguing exoplanet, TOI-1453 c, located 250 light-years away, with an unusually low ...
Does exoplanet K2-18b host alien life or not? Here's why the debate continues
A paper published in 2023 spurred discussion about whether life exists on an exoplanet named K2-18b. Two years later, the ...
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 ...
Challenging Existing Theories: Jupiter-Like Exoplanets Formed Much Sooner Than We Thought
A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
'Bigger than 78 Earths': Indian scientists find monster planet outside the solar system
Indian scientists discover TOI-6038A b, a giant exoplanet 78 times Earth's mass. This sub-Saturn world orbits a binary star, ...