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They moved into floating homes and houseboats — and discovered a world of adventure and hidden expenses
"I guess it depends on the person, but for us, we would never go back," Sarah Spiro told BI. "It be…
Amanda Goh
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Plants like lettuce could become very unhealthy if grown and eaten by astronauts in space, researchers find
Plants like lettuce, important for a balanced astronaut diet, become surprisingly hospitable to the…
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This new super Earth is 70% bigger than our planet, but it's also more than 50 times hotter
It is 70% more massive than our home planet and one day on the planet only lasts 16 hours — that…
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A newly found ‘super’ Earth only takes 2.4 days to complete a year
That means where Earth takes 365.25 days to complete a year, this new super Earth does in less than…
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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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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is so powerful it discovered sand storms on a planet 235 trillion miles away
NASA's Webb telescope peered at clouds on the distant "super Jupiter" planet, and detected tiny san…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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This American university wants to discover Antarctica's oldest ice to find out what happens when Earth gets warmer
The Oregon State University will lead a National Science Foundation-funded effort to discover Antar…
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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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The best candidate for an Earth-like planet is also the farthest one detected yet — and it has a Guinness World Record to prove it
There’s only a handful of planets that fit the profile of being a potential second-home for …
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Two new planets 8-times the size of Earth could support life — and they're right next-door
Finding a planet other than Earth to support human life is astronomy’s moonshot project. Two new ‘S…
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Scientists have discovered water vapor on a potentially habitable super-Earth for the first time. That planet is now our best bet for finding alien life.
"Habitability as we understand it is a very Earth-centric concept. So we know one world that is hab…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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,Jordan Bowman
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Scientists discover Mercury-like exoplanet where a year is only eight hours long
Planet GJ 367b was discovered by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Pl…
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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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A second planet might orbit the closest star to the sun, and astronomers think it's a super-Earth
The team discovered Proxima c using a technique called radial velocity. It works like this: Planets…
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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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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Gartner predicts 75% of VCs will be using AI instead of their ‘gut feel’ to make decisions by 2025 — a path that companies are already discovering
A person’s ‘gut feel’ is often the compass for making decisions. However, when it comes to investin…
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NASA's planet-hunter uncovers its first world with two stars 1,300 light-years away
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed its observations during the 235th …
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Astronomers found a 'snowy' super-Earth less than 6 light-years away - and it may be the first planet we'll photograph beyond the solar system
Future ground observatories like the Extremely Large Telescope, or perhaps even the Giant Magellan …