Determining the size of an Earth-size exoplanet by the amount of starlight it blocks hundreds of light-years away once was the realm of science fiction. Measuring the mass of such a small planet based ...
Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...
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A Nearby Planet Four Times Earth’s Mass Was Just Found, and NASA Is Paying Close Attention
Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the ...
This image from a simulation of atmospheric flow shows temperature patterns on one of the newly discovered planets (61Virb), which is hot enough that it glows with its own thermal emission. A movie of ...
Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...
A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers studied the properties of a planet-forming disk around a young and very low-mass star. The results reveal the richest hydrocarbon ...
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