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  NASA Missions Uncover a Diverse Galaxy of Super-Earths, Raising New Questions About Planetary Evolution

  Super-Earths are among the most common planets in the galaxy, yet none exist in our solar system. Larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, they range from ocean-covered worlds to scorched, atmosphere-less rocks. Some orbit within habitable zones, making them prime candidates for life. NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions, along with upcoming telesc...

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  NASA's TESS Discovers Fastest Disintegrating Planet Ever Seen: What You Need to Know

  NASA’s TESS has observed the closest and fastest disintegrating planet, BD+05 4868 Ab, located 141 light-years away. The planet loses a moon’s mass every million years as it is bombarded by its host star. Scientists are examining its massive dust trails, offering rare insights into the composition of terrestrial exoplanets. Researchers from MIT...

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  Tentative Evidence of Life Found On Faraway Planet, Says NASA

  The space agency announced that its examination of the planet's atmospheric composition indicated the potential existence of an oceanic world.

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  Scientists Discover Possible "Ocean World" 100-Light Years Away From Earth

  A team of researchers have recently discovered a planet about 100 light years away from Earth that they believe could be completely covered in water. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the planet - called TOI-1452 b - is believed to be 70% larger than Earth and is located in a "Goldilocks zone," where temperature...

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  Researchers Rediscover 'Lost Planet' Using New Method in Another Step Towards Finding Habitable Planets

  Researchers from University of Warwick in the UK rediscovered the planet named NGTS-11b using the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) telescopes in Chile. The planet was originally found in 2018 using data from NASA’s TESS telescope which scans for a dip in light from the star to identify a planet.

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  Scientists Discover a New Planet Hidden in a Debris Disk of a Young Star

  Astronomers have a found a new exoplanet hiding in the debris disk of a star. Dubbed as AU Mic b, the exoplanet was found after decades of search, around the red dwarf star, AU Microscopii that is roughly 32 light-years away.

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  NASA Loses Contact With Asteria Satellite, Meant to Study Distant Planets

  Mission operators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement that the last communication with the Asteria (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was in December and they will attempt to contact it till March.

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  NASA's Planet Hunting Telescope Joins Search for Intelligent Aliens

  Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.

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  Caught In The Act: A Black Hole Rips Apart An Unfortunate Star

  Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA's planet-hunting telescope.

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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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  Just 5 Months After Launch, This Telescope Discovers 2 New Planets

  A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday.

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  NASA's New TESS Telescope Shares First Image in Hunt for New Worlds

  The data received from TESS' initial science orbit includes a detailed picture of the southern sky taken with all four of the spacecraft's wide-field cameras.

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  NASA's Newest Planet Hunter Telescope Shares First Science Image

  NASA's newest planet hunter telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), has now shared the first science image that it captured as part of its initial round of data collection.

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  SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope

  NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).

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  SpaceX Rocket Launched From Florida Carrying NASA Planet-Hunting Telescope

  A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off on Wednesday on SpaceX's first high-priority science mission for NASA, a planet-hunting space telescope whose launch was delayed for two days by a rocket-guidance glitch.