NASA’s Webb Lifts Veil on Common but Mysterious Type of Exoplanet
Though they don’t orbit around our Sun, sub-Neptunes are the most common type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar ...
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How much evidence do scientists need to claim they’ve found alien life?
The universe is filled with countless galaxies, stars and planets. Astronomers may find life one day, but they will need ...
Read moreDetailsNASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Capturing Entire Sky
After weeks of preparation, the space observatory has begun its science mission, taking about 3,600 unique images per day to ...
Read moreDetailsK2-18 b could have dimethyl sulfide in its air. But is it a sign of life?
A hycean world — one with a global water ocean and a hydrogen-rich atmosphere — orbits a red dwarf star ...
Read moreDetailsThree new planets found around Barnard’s Star
Back to Article List Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a ...
Read moreDetailsWhen Searching for Life on Exoplanets, a Lack of Its Signs Is Only a Starting Point todayheadline
When searching for signs of life on planets outside our Solar System, sometimes nothing is almost as good as something. ...
Read moreDetailsDiscovery Alert: Four Little Planets, One Big Step
Four rocky planets much smaller than Earth orbit Barnard’s Star, the next closest to ours after the three-star Alpha Centauri ...
Read moreDetailsOur solar system is not as unusual as we thought
The Kepler-11 system, as imagined from above, is a "peas-in-a-pod" planetary system. Credit: NASA Astronomers have discovered more than 300 ...
Read moreDetailsDiscovery Alert: ‘Super-Earth’ Swings from Super-Heated to Super-Chill
The Discovery A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close, Sun-like star, and could be a habitable world – but one ...
Read moreDetailsAstronomers uncover the topsy-turvy atmosphere of a distant planet todayheadline
The three layers of the atmosphere of the gas giant TylosESO/M. Kornmesser The atmosphere of a distant world has been ...
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