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NASA Just Discovered a Possible “Second Earth”—What It Means for Space Exploration
Our quest to find a “second Earth” has long occupied scientists and dreamers alike. The possibility of another world ...
Beyond our solar system: scientists identify a new exoplanet candidate
The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve. Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of ...
Eccentricities of orbits point to significantly different upbringings for small and large planets
The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.
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James Webb Space Telescope dives into the atmosphere of a mystery rogue planet or failed star
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered into the atmosphere of a cosmic body that could be a ...
Sharper image: Optics instrument reveals pictures of 'baby planets'
With a sun more than 4.5 billion years old, our solar system is considered "middle-aged," and the pictures of what it might ...
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait for NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...