Super-Earth Exoplanets
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Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet
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The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…
Article1 month ago
Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery Milestone Passed!
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On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists…
Article5 months ago
Discovery Alert: Spock’s Home Planet Goes ‘Poof’
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The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
Article7 months ago
NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
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Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet…
Article8 months ago
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
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A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized…
Article11 months ago
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
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A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…
Article1 year ago
