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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...
Roman was similarly designed with a focused set of science goals, including exploring an uncharted region of exoplanet ...
"Given everything we know about this planet, a Hycean world with an ocean that is teeming with life is the scenario that best ...
Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...
What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has found water vapor swirling in the air of a distant, boiling-hot alien planet, a new ...
The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has investigated an exoplanet that’s super cool — literally. The huge planet, which is six ...
Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...
In 2020, researchers discovered the first exoplanet near a white dwarf. This planet has turned out to be the coldest known to date.
Since its launch in April 2018, the satellite has been conducting a survey of about 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets—ranging from ...