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Earth Isn't So Special Anymore
The "habitable" zone means that a planet is not too close to its host star that liquid water would …
Dina Spector
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Big, Beautiful Pictures Of 4 New Planets That Could Have Life On Them
Kepler observes 150,000 stars, and has found a few thousand of those to have planet candidates. If …
Harrison Jacobs
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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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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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Astronomers Find Tiniest Planet Ever
Kepler-37b, about one-third the size of Earth, is one of two other planets found in a region within…
Dina Spector
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Researchers Discover First Earth-Sized Planets That Could Support Life
The "habitable zone" is the area in space that is the right distance from the star for a planet to …
Dina Spector
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NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is dead 9 years after launching into space
That next-generation observatory will rival the abilities of the Hubble Space Telescope and will be…
Dave Mosher,Reuters
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One Image Shows All The Potential Planets We've Found Outside Our Solar System
Kepler scientists have added 833 new exoplanet candidates (potential planets outside our solar syst…
Dina Spector
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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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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…
Dina Spector
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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…
Dina Spector
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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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NASA just doubled the number of known planets outside our solar system
In 2014, NASA started K2, a follow-up to the 2009 Kepler mission, continued the search for exoplane…
Ali Sundermier
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The spacecraft that discovered most of the Earth-like planets we know about is running out of fuel
The spacecraft itself is a telescope that observes faraway stars to look for dips in brightness, wh…
Kevin Loria
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These Beautiful NASA Travel Posters Show What Life On Other Planets Might Be Like
Kepler-16b (to the right) is a planet dubbed "Tatooine" because of its system's resemblance to Luke…
Erin Brodwin
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This space telescope just uncovered more than 100 new planets, including a planetary system that might harbor life
"Our analysis shows that by the end of the K2 mission, we expect to double or triple the number of …
Ali Sundermier
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Why NASA's latest discovery of Earth 2.0 is so important in the search for life on other planets
Stars come in many different sizes and temperatures. There are giant stars, which can be tens of th…
Jessica Orwig,Andy Kiersz
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Two Broken Wheels Crippled NASA's $600 Million Telescope
One of the wheels stopped working in July last year. With only three wheels the telescope could sti…
Dina Spector
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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…