Super-Earth Exoplanets
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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 Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
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Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet…
Article2 months ago
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
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A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized…
Article5 months ago
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
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A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…
Article8 months ago
Strange New Worlds
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A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…
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Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water
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Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra,…
Article2 years ago
