exoplanets

HD 169142 b is only the third exoplanet to have been imaged during formation. getty For only the third time in history a distant alien planet many light-years away from Earth has been…
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Illustration showing what the hot rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b could look like. TRAPPIST-1 b, the ... innermost of seven known planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, orbits its star at a…
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Artist's conception of a large gas giant planet orbiting a small red dwarf star called TOI-5205. ... Until now no gas giant has been found in a planetary system around a low-mass M…
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The results of a new study into the origins of all of the water on Earth could have important ... implications for the search for water—and life—on other planets. getty This week we…
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Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this ... illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can be seen in the…
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This artist’s impression shows the super-Earth 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star. Using ... observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analytic software…
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Project RIGEL is a proposal to send a “robot geologist” on an epic journey across time and space to ... a planet around a Sun-like star. getty Finding alien planets orbiting other…
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Planet formation got going early, with the first bodies forming concurrently with the star, say ... scientists. Amanda Smith Earth and the other planets in the solar system have been…
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The Keck Planet Finder achieved first light on November 9, 2022 after capturing a spectrum of ... Jupiter. W. M. Keck Observatory/Caltech/KPF Team A strange new image of the giant…
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A gas giant exoplanet with the density of a marshmallow has been detected in orbit around a cool red ... dwarf star by the NASA-funded NEID radial-velocity instrument on the 3.5-meter…
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