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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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All about Super-Earths, their dwarf stars and how they're more habitable than our earth
I'm a professor of astronomy who studies galactic cores, distant galaxies, astrobiology and ex…
PTI
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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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Billionaire hedge fund founder Ray Dalio thinks exploring the ocean is more exciting and important than going to Mars - here's his new mission
The team that filmed "Blue Planet II," one of the most remarkable nature documentaries ever, conduc…
Kevin Loria
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A radical new study has pin pointed the most compelling locations where we could soon discover intelligent aliens
Admittedly, it's impossible to know what potential alien scientists are thinking, but when it comes…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope found an Earth-size exoplanet 100 light-years away. It could hide a vast ocean.
TOI 700 d sits in its star's Goldilocks-like habitable zone - the area around a star where it's not…
Aylin Woodward
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Astronomers discover three planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
An international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting…
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How exoplanet hunters find alien worlds hundreds of light-years away and figure out if they have water
Using data from space telescopes, researchers recently found two possible water-rich exoplanets. It…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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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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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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NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope just discovered a 'super-Earth' and 2 'sub-Neptunes' less than 75 light-years away - among the closest exoplanets ever found
The new worlds also exhibit a unique mathematical quality that researchers don't fully understand y…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that's 1,000 light years from Earth
Although this technique is a popular one for planet hunters, it's not the most reliable because the…
Jessica Orwig
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NASA's biggest-ever hunt for alien planets is finally underway - and the agency expects to discover 'strange, fantastic worlds'
The next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be …
Dave Mosher
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New Exoplanet Is A 'Virtual Twin Of Earth'
A planet's mass is traditionally found by measuring the velocity of its host star toward and away o…