Winning Rocket Sticker Selected for ESA’s Cheops Mission
A colourful design capturing the essence of ESA’s Cheops mission, which will measure the size of planets as they cross in front of their parent stars,…
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TRAPPIST-1 Is Up to Twice as Old as Our Own Solar System
If we want to know more about whether life could survive on a planet outside our solar system, it’s important to know the age of its…
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Hubble Detects Exoplanet With Glowing Water Atmosphere
Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence to date for a stratosphere on a planet outside our solar system, or exoplanet. A stratosphere is a layer of…
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Kepler Survey Catalog With Hundreds of New Planet Candidates Released by NASA
NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and…
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Can Planets Be Rejuvenated Around Dead Stars?
For a planet, this would be like a day at the spa. After years of growing old, a massive planet could, in theory, brighten up with…
Read the articleHubble Telescope Detects ‘Sunscreen’ Layer on Distant Planet
Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected a stratosphere and temperature inversion in the atmosphere of a planet several times the mass of Jupiter, called…
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Large Binocular Telescope Studies Dust for Other Earths
The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the “habitable zone” around a star, opening a new door…
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Kepler Marks 1,000th Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovery
How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and…
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Mega-Earth Breaks the Rules
Astronomers have discovered a rocky planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. This discovery has…
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First Earth-Size Planet in ‘Habitable Zone’ Discovered by Kepler
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a…
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