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Scientists Discover 'Potentially Habitable' Earth-Like Planet Candidate
If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
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Are Exomoons Real? Scientists Debate Discoveries Outside Solar System
Astronomers are grappling with the difficulty of detecting exomoons, despite believing they found one in 2018 orbiting Kepler-1625b.
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NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope
NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.
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How Hidden Stars May Impact Search For Earth-Like Planets
Researchers have found that hidden stars may make planets appear smaller than they actually are, complicating the search for Earth-like planets.
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10 Things To Know About Earth-Like Planets Found In Nearby Solar System
US space agency NASA has announced that scientists researching outer space have found the existence of another 'solar system' - seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in galaxy 40 light years away - opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond. A press release from the space agency said the Spitzer Space Telescope has...
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Astronomers Discover Largest Planet Orbiting 2 Suns
Astronomers using the US Kepler Space Telescope said on Monday they have found the largest planet yet discovered that orbits a pair of binary stars.
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These Three Earth-Like Planets May Be Our Best Chance Yet At Detecting Life
It seems like scientists are finding potentially habitable planets all the time these days, and they are - the Kepler Space Telescope is very, very good at its job, even though it's technically broken. But the three exoplanets described Monday in the journal Nature manage to stand apart: According to the scientists who discovered this trio, the Ear...
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There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)
The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.
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China Rushes to Finish World's Largest Telescope
China is frantically giving finishing touches to the world's largest radio telescope designed to find signs of alien life following NASA's recent discovery of 'Earth 2.0' with the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.
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Astronomers Discover Most Earth-Like Planet Yet
A planet believed to be remarkably similar to Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant sun-like star, bolstering hopes of finding life elsewhere in the universe, US scientists said on Thursday.
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Star With 3 Planets Larger Than Earth Discovered
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth.
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NASA Posters Depict Alien Worlds
NASA has released three exoplanet posters in order to stir the public's curiosity about exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
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An 'upside-down planet' discovered
Like so many interesting discoveries, this one happened largely by accident. An astronomer has discovered an 'upside-down planet' that reveals new method for studying binary star systems.
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Scientists Discover 'Potentially Habitable' Earth-Like Planet Candidate
If confirmed, this exoplanet would be the only known rocky world in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
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Are Exomoons Real? Scientists Debate Discoveries Outside Solar System
Astronomers are grappling with the difficulty of detecting exomoons, despite believing they found one in 2018 orbiting Kepler-1625b.
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NASA Bids Goodbye To Planet-Hunting Kepler Space Telescope
NASA has decided to retire its Kepler space telescope that discovered more than 2,600 planets and ran out of fuel needed for further science operations.
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How Hidden Stars May Impact Search For Earth-Like Planets
Researchers have found that hidden stars may make planets appear smaller than they actually are, complicating the search for Earth-like planets.
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10 Things To Know About Earth-Like Planets Found In Nearby Solar System
US space agency NASA has announced that scientists researching outer space have found the existence of another 'solar system' - seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in galaxy 40 light years away - opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond. A press release from the space agency said the Spitzer Space Telescope has...
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Astronomers Discover Largest Planet Orbiting 2 Suns
Astronomers using the US Kepler Space Telescope said on Monday they have found the largest planet yet discovered that orbits a pair of binary stars.
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These Three Earth-Like Planets May Be Our Best Chance Yet At Detecting Life
It seems like scientists are finding potentially habitable planets all the time these days, and they are - the Kepler Space Telescope is very, very good at its job, even though it's technically broken. But the three exoplanets described Monday in the journal Nature manage to stand apart: According to the scientists who discovered this trio, the Ear...
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There's a New Earth-Size Planet in the Neighborhood (Galactically Speaking)
The yeoman work of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has revealed our Milky Way galaxy to be lousy with planets - surely tens of billions of them, if you extrapolate from what Kepler has detected so far in a small patch of the sky.
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China Rushes to Finish World's Largest Telescope
China is frantically giving finishing touches to the world's largest radio telescope designed to find signs of alien life following NASA's recent discovery of 'Earth 2.0' with the planet-hunting Kepler space telescope.
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Astronomers Discover Most Earth-Like Planet Yet
A planet believed to be remarkably similar to Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant sun-like star, bolstering hopes of finding life elsewhere in the universe, US scientists said on Thursday.
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Star With 3 Planets Larger Than Earth Discovered
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth.
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NASA Posters Depict Alien Worlds
NASA has released three exoplanet posters in order to stir the public's curiosity about exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope.
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An 'upside-down planet' discovered
Like so many interesting discoveries, this one happened largely by accident. An astronomer has discovered an 'upside-down planet' that reveals new method for studying binary star systems.
