Earth-sized Planets

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  Jupiter’s Earth-Sized Storms Might Be Caused by Magnetic Tornadoes, Study Claims

  Magnetic tornadoes twisting down from Jupiter's ionosphere create massive, Earth-sized anticyclonic storms in the planet's atmosphere. These dark ovals, detectable only in ultraviolet light, form dense hazes of aerosols stirred by swirling magnetic vortices. This phenomenon, visible at Jupiter's poles, was unveiled through data from the Hubble Spac...

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  Astronomers Discover New Earth-Sized Planet Orbiting Jupiter-Sized Red Dwarf Star

  This new extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is named Speculoos-3b and is located relatively close to the Earth, just 55 light-years away.

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  This Distant Star Has 2 'Earth-Sized' Habitable Planets Orbiting It

  Astronomers discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star in 1995. The field of exoplanet discovery and research has been rapidly evolving ever since.

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  NASA's James Webb Telescope Discovers Its First Exoplanet

  LHS 475 b's size as an Earth-sized terrestrial planet was confirmed by JWST, however the exoplanet's atmosphere has not yet been determined.

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  Scientists Discover Earth-Sized Planet In The Habitable Zone

  The scientists used NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e.

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  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Find Out More About Planets That Can Support Life

  The American space agency NASA is using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out more about potentially habitable planets.

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  Earth-Sized Free Floating Rogue Planet Discovered in Milky Way

  University of Warsaw researchers have announced that they have detected a terrestrial-mass rogue planet. They used a technique called microlensing which allows them to find planets that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to. They call this event ‘the most extreme short-timescale microlens discovered to date.’

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  17 New Planets Including Habitable Earth-Sized World Discovered

  University of British Columbia (UBC) Astronomy Student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.

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  NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Finds 17 New Exoplanets, Including an Earth-Sized World

  Researchers have discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.

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  NASA Planet Hunting Satellite TESS Finds Earth-Sized World in 'Goldilocks Zone'

  NASA's planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.

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  Earth-Sized World Found In "Habitable Zone" By NASA Planet Hunter

  NASA said Monday that its planet hunter satellite TESS had discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.

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  NASA Exoplanet Hunter TESS Finds Earth-Size Planet

  NASA's new exoplanet hunter Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world.

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  $337 Million Washing Machine-Sized Spacecraft To Seek Earth-Like Worlds

  NASA is poised to launch a $337 million washing machine-sized spacecraft that aims to vastly expand mankind's search for planets beyond our solar system, particularly closer, Earth-sized ones that might harbor life.

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  These Are The Planets You'd Want To Live On In The Star System Most Like Ours

  If you were going to design a laboratory for answering questions about solar systems, you could hardly do better than TRAPPIST-1. The system, just 39 light-years away, comprises a dim red sun orbited by seven rocky, Earth-size worlds - almost as if someone had designed an experiment in planet formation.

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  There's A New Planet In The Neighborhood - And It Looks Like A Nice Place To Live

  One of our closest celestial neighbors is a warm, rocky world, scientists say. Writing in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, scientists report the discovery of an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting the star Ross 128, a dim red dwarf just 11 light-years away