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The researchers also varied the amount of land cover versus ocean ... and HabEx (Habitable Exoplanet Observatory). Ground-based telescopes like the Thirty Meter Telescope, the Giant Magellan ...

Observations of Exoplanet WASP-69b has uncovered a 350,000-mile-long comet-like tail. The tail is a result of its escaping ...

Land planets have a higher runaway greenhouse ... is important for the onset of a global ice-covered state for Earth-like exoplanets.

Over the last three decades, astronomers have confirmed 5,557 exoplanets in the universe. While that already seems like a high number of exoplanets, scientists actually believe that the universe ...

Things like the amount of ice cover, clouds in the atmosphere, land cover vs. ocean cover, and even vegetation all affect Earth's albedo. We live in an age of exoplanet discovery. We now know of ...

[Related: Why Venus is so dry.] The exoplanet could have two very different types of atmospheric setups. An Earth-like atmosphere made up of oxygen, nitrogen, and other life-friendly elements ...

scientists discovered that an exoplanet named HD 189733 b contains hydrogen sulfide, a colorless gas emitted by decaying organic matter with a strong, egg-like odor. In addition to hydrogen ...

Ricardo Ramírez Reyes (University of Chile) Astronomers have identified the most reflective exoplanet ever found, an ultra-hot, Neptune-like world gleaming in distant space. The planet ...