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Scientists find Earth-like planet that could be home to alien life
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThe planet planet orbits its host star every 12.8 days, and is comparable...Earth. It has an...
A newly discovered exoplanet has almost the same temperatures as Earth
BGR· 2 days agoA Venus-sized exoplanet located just 40 light years away may be the smoking gun that astronomers...
An Exoplanet's Huge Comet-like Tail Hides An Astronomical Secret
Inverse· 5 days agoThe star it orbits is baking and stripping away the planet’s atmosphere, and that escaped atmosphere...
Earth-sized exoplanet discovered around ultracool dwarf star
EarthSky· 1 day agoAstronomers with the SPECULOOS project discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting an ultracool dwarf star. It’s only the second planetary system astronomers< ...
Astronomers Discover the Second-Lightest "Cotton Candy" Exoplanet to Date.
Universe Today· 7 days agoThe hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of...
Newly Discovered Exoplanet May Have Earth-Like Temperatures, Astronomers Suggest
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA newly discovered exoplanet, with its surface temperature estimated to be remarkably temperate, is...
Discovery of Earth-sized Exoplanet Around SPECULOOS-3
Gadgets 360· 5 days agoAstronomers from the University of Liège have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting...
The James Webb Space Telescope may have solved a puffy planet mystery. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days ago"The Webb data tells us that planets like WASP-107 b didn...the way it does." Discovered in 2017 by...
Astronomers Uncover a Baffling “Cosmic Mystery” – A Giant Planet As Fluffy as Cotton Candy
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoThis exoplanet is larger but seven times less massive than Jupiter and is the second least dense...
Stars give tiny planets a gravitational 'squeeze' to strip away their atmospheres
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoModeling distant planets has revealed that tidal forces generated by their parent stars can combine...