Exoplanet Science
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Coming in Hot — NASA’s Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets
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This graphic shows a three-dimensional map of stars near the Sun. These stars are close enough that they could be…
Article2 weeks ago
Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star
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An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study the disk of gas and dust…
Article3 weeks ago
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
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The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
Article1 month ago
NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
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Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered…
Article1 month ago
Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle
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The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars…
Article1 month ago
NASA Tool Gets Ready to Image Faraway Planets
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A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can…
Article1 month ago
