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Finding an ocean on an exoplanet would be huge, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory could do it
On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
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👽 Could this exoplanet harbor life? Scientists are debating
The search for extraterrestrial life oscillates between hope and skepticism. A recent study reports promising clues about a ...
Exoplanet hunters may be misrepresenting the likelihood of their findings
There's nothing to get a scientist's heart pumping like a good, old-fashioned statistical debate. When it comes to topics ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captures images of what's believed to be newly discovered exoplanet
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Its First Direct Image Discovery of an Exoplanet
Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...
Astronomers Spot “Death Wish” Planet That’s Slowly Killing Itself
A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...
Exoplanet Recently Discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...
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NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft and citizen scientists discover a cool new alien world
A new gas giant world discovered by citizen scientists using data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is cool, ...
Titan is the perfect benchmark for studying exoplanet atmospheres, study suggests
The NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission explored Saturn and its moons from 2004 to 2017, providing the most detailed images and ...
Astronomers detect first known ‘death wish’ planet
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
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Exoplanets that cling too tightly to their stars trigger their own doom: 'This is a completely new phenomenon'
Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...
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Mysterious Planet Nine discovery may be forthcoming after bizarre ...
The exoplanet HD 106906 b is 336 light years from Earth and has a bizarre orbit around its pair of host stars, going around once every 15,000 years, ...