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Terrestrial Exoplanets

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…

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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…

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Discovery Alert: An Earth-sized World and Its Ultra-cool Star
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Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are…

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Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
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An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and…

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NASA’s Hubble Measures the Size of the Nearest Transiting Earth-Sized Planet
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a…

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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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Finding Life Beyond Earth: What Comes Next?
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The final story in our series considers the future of the search for life beyond Earth – and whether we…

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Searching for Signs of Intelligent Life: Technosignatures
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Signs of life beyond Earth could take forms that are clearly artificial – radio or light signals, or even evidence…

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‘Life’ in the Lab
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Just how life started billions of years ago on Earth, and how it might start on other worlds, are the…

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