Sep 11 2019
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For the first time ever, astronomers have detected water vapor in the atmosphere of a rocky exoplanet. Intriguingly,…
Apr 26 2018
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An enormous laser targeted for shutdown by proposed federal budget cuts has just done some record-breaking science…
Apr 23 2018
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Rocky worlds larger than Earth are commonplace in the galaxy, and a few of them may even be habitable. Which poses…
Apr 6 2017
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Using a ground-based telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected traces of an atmosphere around an…
Mar 30 2016
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Weather can get pretty rough here on Earth, but there’s a rocky exoplanet located about 40 light-years away that…
Dec 10 2015
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A pair of new studies claim to have discovered two of the most distant objects ever seen in the outer reaches of the…
Jul 24 2015
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Yesterday, NASA’s Kepler team announced the discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet. It may be larger than…
Jul 23 2015
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Earlier today, during the announcement of the most Earth-like planet ever discovered, researchers working on the…
May 5 2015
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It may be a terrestrial planet, but the changing atmospheric conditions on the so-called “Diamond Planet” are…
Mar 24 2015
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It is becoming increasingly obvious that our Solar System — with its inner collection of small rocky planets and an…
Dec 19 2014
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In May 2013, NASA's exoplanet-seeking spacecraft, Kepler, seemed doomed. Two of four wheels that stabilized its…
Apr 28 2014
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Prior to the discovery of exoplanets, astronomers assumed that our solar system's configuration was typical. But…
Apr 24 2014
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Over the past few years, astronomers have catalogued several new exoplanets called "Super-Earths," rocky (and maybe w…
Feb 28 2014
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The Milky Way appears to be peppered with so-called Super-Earths — distant exoplanets that are between two to 10…
Jan 7 2014
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A pair of Chicago-based astronomers have some good news for you alien-hunters out there. Despite previous…
Dec 4 2013
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To date, astronomers have catalogued over 1,000 exoplanets — some of them rocky and parked within their host star's…
Mar 14 2013
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When it comes to detecting and cataloguing exoplanets, astronomers have only just begun. It should come as no…
Feb 5 2013
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Among the 860 exoplanets documented so far, a good portion of them are so-called super-Earths — planets that…