Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable …
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A team led by UdeM astronomers has found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are …
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James Webb Telescope Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere That Has Never Been Seen Before
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesNASA’s space telescope has produced a molecular and chemical portrait of the atmospheric constituents of exoplanet WASP-39 b, …
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The team, which includes astronomers at the University of Birmingham, detected the rocky planets orbiting LP 890-9, a …
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The first worlds beyond our solar system were discovered three decades ago. Since then, close to 5,000 exoplanets …
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Evidence for Substance at Liquid-Gas Boundary on Exoplanet WASP-31b
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesOne of the properties that makes a planet suitable for life is the presence of a weather system. …
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An exoplanet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to …
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Our Galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, …
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Thanks to new research using data from the Kepler space telescope, it’s estimated that there could be as …
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As missions like NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, TESS, and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other …