How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
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NASA’s next telescope could spot alien life by its color, even purple planets
The Living Worlds Working Group proposes a revolutionary approach to finding life on distant planets. The paper, part of the ...
We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...
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NASA spots a glass rain planet with 5,400 mph winds that mimics Earth
From a distance, it looks like a serene blue twin of our own world, a dot that could almost pass for Earth in a telescope ...
Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...
HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many ...
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How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...
By tracking active stars, NASA's Pandora will join the search for water and other key signs in exoplanet atmospheres.
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a giant gas planet that has already lost more than one-third of its mass since its ...
The very bright "star" you see in the eastern sky after sunset is actually the planet Jupiter. It is just coming off ...
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