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NASA just discovered an Earth-like planet
"It's simply awe-inspiring to consider that this planet has spent 6 billion years in the habitable …
Jessica Orwig
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Two dozen superhabitable planets identified — some older, a little larger, slightly warmer and possibly wetter than Earth
Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions mor…
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There could be up to 10 billion warm and cozy Earth-like planets in our home galaxy, new research reveals
But Ford's team didn't want to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the galaxy based solely…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A handful of recent discoveries has transformed our understanding of Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Here's why Earths might be common.
That's what NASA's Kepler space telescope set out to do. Kepler scanned the skies from 2009 to 2018…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How The New Mega-Earth Will Change Our Search For Extraterrestrial Life
With these two extraordinary facts in hand, scientists may want to rescan solar systems with giant …
Leslie Baehr
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Astronomers have discovered a star and potentially habitable planet that are strikingly similar to the sun and Earth
Scientists discovered an Earth-like, potentially habitable planet about 3,000 light-years away. Its…
Holly Secon
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Super-Earths are real and they could be an even better place for life than Earth
There's just one problem leaving this tropical paradise would be extremely difficult. The escape ve…
María Soledad González Romero…
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LIVE: NASA Announces An Earth-Like Planet That May Have Liquid Water
The planets were discovered using the Kepler spacecraft, launched in 2009 to look for Earth-sized p…
Dina Spector
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An 'absolutely phenomenal' discovery hints 4 Earth-size planets may orbit the closest sun to our own
"We're getting tantalizingly close to observing the correct limits required for detecting Earth-lik…
Dave Mosher
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NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets - and 10 may be like Earth
Scientists wouldn't say too much about the 10 new planets, only that they appear to be roughly Eart…
Dave Mosher
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An ancient super-Earth offers an unexpected clue that life in our galaxy could be older than scientists thought
This rocky planet formed about 10 billion years ago, making it twice as old as Earth. It's too hot …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomer Explains Why It's So Hard To Find An 'Earth Twin' Exoplanet
One way to identify an exoplanet is called the transiting method. When a planet passes in front of …
Kelly Dickerson
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Scientists are preparing to search for alien life on what could be our closest Earth-like planet
Proxima b is about 4 million miles away from the star (just 5% of the distance between the Earth an…