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A 17-year-old intern at NASA discovered a new planet on his 3rd day on the job
He had been on a project searching for planets orbiting two stars, and tasked with examining the br…
Sahar Esfandiari
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These 2 newborn planets are going to help us understand how our solar system formed
"I think it is exciting - these are planets where you have evidence that they just formed, so we ar…
Ali Sundermier
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Astronomers reveal the first-ever photo of 2 planets orbiting a sun-like star, taken from 300 light-years away
Jupiter and Saturn have nothing on these gas giants. The planets are several times more massive and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Hubble has discovered an alien planet that orbits 2 stars - and that's not the weirdest part
"The ground-based observations suggested two possible scenarios for the three-body system: a Saturn…
Lindsay Dodgson
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We've discovered 3 bizarre planets and one scientist is 'optimistic' they might harbor life
The next step, Gillon said, will be using the next generation of satellites - including NASA's upco…
Sarah Kramer
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2 of the best places to hunt for alien life just became even more promising
"We thought, maybe we could see if people at Hubble would give us time to do this observation, so w…
Ali Sundermier
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NASA spots an Enormous Planet outside our Solar System, Orbiting Two Suns and Where Human Life is Possible
Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4 billion years old, roughly the …
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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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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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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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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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Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable world just 31 light-years away, thanks to NASA's planet-hunting telescope
So far, the telescope has found over 850 potential new planets. The next step is for ground-based t…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers are pioneering a new way to find alien planets orbiting far-away stars. It led them to 6 unusual, vaporizing worlds.
In this particular system, the smaller of the two stars is on the brink of being too small to be co…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Scientists have discovered a new planet twice the size of Earth, and it could have liquid water on its surface
Since Kepler is no longer hunting for planets, NASA is now hoping that a new space telescope will a…
Peter Kotecki,Peter Kotecki
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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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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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New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io
In a known star system about 66 light years away from Sun, the astrophysicists discovered signal…