Terrestrial Exoplanets
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NASA’s TESS Finds Intriguing World Sized Between Earth, Venus
5 min read
Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered…
Article1 month ago
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Discovery Alert: An Earth-sized World and Its Ultra-cool Star
4 min read
Our galaxy is a jewel box of red stars. More than 70% of the stars in the Milky Way are…
Article1 month ago
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Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments
5 min read
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and…
Article7 months ago
![The disk of a bright reddish-orange-white star is just above and to the right of image center. A small black world is passing in front of the star. A closer planet is in the lower-left corner. We see it as an illuminated crescent facing the star. Two reddish-orange stars are off to the right of the central star. All on a black background dotted with more distant stars.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/hubble-transitingearthsizedplanet-stsci-01he0a43v0d535x1zmc4kakg2r.png?w=4096&format=png)
NASA’s Hubble Measures the Size of the Nearest Transiting Earth-Sized Planet
3 min read
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a…
Article8 months ago
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Strange New Worlds
1 min read
A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…
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![Illustration shows Earth's Sun swollen into its red-giant phase billions of years from now. The Sun itself is a fiery red orange, and four planets – our solar system's inner planets – can be seen as crescents being consumed by the swollen Sun, their atmospheres beginning to be blown away into diffuse trails behind them.](https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Story6_2_1280.png?w=4096&format=png)
Finding Life Beyond Earth: What Comes Next?
6 min read
The final story in our series considers the future of the search for life beyond Earth – and whether we…
Article12 months ago
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