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A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered ... "Its luminosity and proximity make it an ideal candidate for future telescopes whose mission will ...

Red dwarf stars are the most common stars in the universe and live ... wouldn't be enough to make it habitable," said co-author Vinay Kashyap, also of CfA. "A planet around Wolf 359 would also ...

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making each planet feel more alive than ever. With the addition of over a trillion new star systems, players will encounter countless new worlds, some potentially habitable — others deeply bizarre. No ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...