NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
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NASA finds most Earth-like planet yet as Kepler 452b hints at alien life
When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
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How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
A faint signal from old telescope data is causing a stir in astronomy: a planet barely larger than Earth, with an almost ...
A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...
This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Illustration of the Earth-like exoplanet Proxima Centauri b orbiting the star Proxima ...
Morgan Underwood receives funding from NASA-funded CLEVER Planets (Cycles of Life-Essential Volatile Elements in Rocky Planets) research project. When astronomers search for planets that could host ...
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