Astronomers Find Super-Earth Skimming its Star’s Habitable Zone
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Scientists have discovered a super-Earth planet near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star 37 light-years from Earth called…
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Could One of the Closest Stars to Our Sun Have a Planet Like Earth?
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We can find our Solar System’s nearest neighboring stars at a distance of just over four light-years away; Proxima Centauri….
Astronomers Spot Super Moon Orbiting Distant Alien World
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Astronomers have presented the results of a search for exomoons in 70 cold long-period exoplanets. They found a new exomoon…
Astronomers Find Magnetic Field on Distant Alien World
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Importance of the magnetic field Earth’s magnetic field reflects the solar wind, without which the planet’s atmosphere would gradually be…
Astronomers Image Giant Planet Orbiting Most Massive Star Duo Found to Date
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Astronomers using direct observation have discovered a giant planet with multiple and wide orbits. It is located in a binary…
Peculiar Alien World in Outer Space Is Lightest Exoplanet Found to Date
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Astronomers have discovered a new sub-earth with an ultrashort period that ranks among the lightest exoplanets found to date. GJ…
10 Things You Need to Know About the Closest Directly Imaged Alien World
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Scientists from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii in the United States have discovered an exoplanet at a distance of only 35 light-years – this is the closest exoplanet to Earth ever found and described. It was named COCONUTS-2b.
Planetary Transit Reveals Surprising 3rd Planet in a Bright Nearby Star System
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The CHEOPS space telescope accidentally discovered a unique long-period transiting exoplanet – Nu2 Lupi d, which takes 107 days to…
Molecule Common to Earth Detected on Distant Alien World
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The molecule hydroxyl is formed in the Earth’s atmosphere under the influence of ionizing radiation. Ultraviolet light (UV) coming from…
TESS Space Telescope Spots Over 2000 Alien Worlds in Record 24 Months
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Astronomers have summed up the results of the main scientific program of the TESS space telescope. In two years, it…
Scientists Find Nearby Super-Earth Unlike Anything Discovered To Date
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With the advent of exoplanet hunting tools, the number of open worlds outside the solar system quickly grew to thousands….
Exciting Evidence Suggests Potentially Habitable World Orbiting Alpha Centauri
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Exciting evidence has been put forth by a group of astronomers who propose the existence of a potentially habitable world…
Astronomers Spot Radio Emission Coming From Planet in the Boötes Constellation
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In Brief: A group of astronomers exploring the universe using a series of radio telescopes has identified what they believe…
Astronomers Find Mysterious Alien World That Orbits Its Sun Once Every 15,000 Years
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An exoplanet with a mass 11 times that of Jupiter – HD 106906 b – is located 336 light-years from…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Diamond Planet
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The universe we live in is a strange place. Humans, in general, have limited resources and equipment, and that’s why…
10 Things You Should Know About ’51 Pegasi B’ the First Extrasolar Planet Discovered by Man
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There are over 200 billion planets in the Milky Way. Moreover, over 100 billion galaxies have been discovered so far;…
Meet “Earth Pi” an Exoplanet That Orbits its Star Every 3.14 days
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The universe is an amazing place. Each day, we seem to learn just how little we know about the cosmos….
The Strangest Exoplanet Ever Found Could Hide Within the Constellation of Orion
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Hidden away within the constellation of Orion is a mysterious planet—orbiting as many as three stars—that could be one of…
This is the First Direct Image of Alien Planets Orbiting a Distant Sun-Like Star
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Astronomers have managed to obtain the first direct image of distant alien worlds orbiting a star similar to our Sun….
We Now Have Definite Evidence Earth’s Nearest Exoplanet is Real
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There’s an alien world located 4.2 light-years from Earth in the constellation Proxima Centauri. Its name is Proxima b, and…
One In A Million: Astronomers Find Super-Earth With an Earth-Like Orbit
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Astronomers have found what is hailed “a one-in-a-million discovery.” Researchers have spotted a rare, Super-Earth towards the center of the…
Unlike any Other: Distant Exoplanet Three Times the Mass of Jupiter Found by Astronomers
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Astronomer shave discovered a supermassive planet–estimated at around three times the mass of Jupiter–orbiting a distant star. A monstrous planet…