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4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
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Exoplanet 'baby pictures' reveal exomoons possibly taking shape around infant worlds
"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...
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James Webb Space Telescope could find signs of life on alien 'hycean' ocean worlds
Hycean worlds, which are a possible kind of exoplanet with deep oceans surrounded by a thick envelope of hydrogen, could ...
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Atmospheric properties
The atmospheres of exoplanets are our observable window on the physical and chemical properties of these objects. In the last ten years, the study of exoplanetary atmospheres has become one of the ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...
Webb telescope's images of exoplanets "stunned researchers," NASA says
Normally, the Webb telescope only detects exoplanets by glimpsing them when they cross in front of their host star. This ...
Cosmic Breakthrough as Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide on Young Alien Planets
Giant Exoplanets in HR 8799 System Likely Formed Like Jupiter and Saturn The first exoplanet was discovered in the 1990s, but ...