Super-Earth Exoplanets

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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…

Article15 hours ago

Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!

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On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists…

Article4 months ago
Artist's concept shows a full disk of imagined planet Vulcan, predominantly light brown with patches of gray-green, against the black background of space.

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,…

Article6 months ago
Illustration of a rocky exoplanet and its star. The star is in the background at the lower left and appears somewhat, but not significantly, smaller in the sky than the planet. It has a bright orange-red glow, and appears to have an active surface. The planet is in the foreground to the upper right of the star. The left quarter of the planet (the side facing the star) is lit, while the rest is in shadow. The planet has hints of a rocky, partly molten surface beneath the haze of a thin atmosphere. The boundary between the day and night sides of the planet is fuzzy.

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…

Article7 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…

Article10 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…

Article1 year ago

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