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What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
New distant warm Jupiter discovered with TESS
Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter ...
The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
One clue is the size of the sun, which is between two and 10 times the ... "This is consistent with what we see in exoplanet ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Introducing Enaiposha: A Newly Discovered Exoplanet Classified As Super-Venus
However, after re-evaluating using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Enaiposha shares more similarities with Venus than previously thought, leading to the proposal of ...
Hubble's 20-year study of Uranus yields new atmospheric insights
The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, in an ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
This type of exoplanet is relatively rare, but 2,615 light-years away, the star named Kepler-51 is surrounded by not one but three super-puffs that are the size of Saturn but weigh only slightly ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
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JWST’s Next Year of Amazing Science Revealed—As Funding Worries Loom Large
The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...
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Discovery Alert: Four Little Planets, One Big Step
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