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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Are we alone in the universe? While no one can say for sure, space scientists know where to start looking—exoplanets. An ...
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What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
Understanding exoplanet evolution could help solve the mystery of the 'hot Neptune desert.' As astronomers delve deeper into ...
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Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of ...
Smallest rocky exoplanets: NASA spots Earth-like planets circling Barnard's Star, but there's a catch
The quartet of planets — named b, c, d and e — are some of the smallest rocky worlds ever detected. NASA says each has a mass ...
Two New Exoplanets Found Orbiting a Star in Draco Constellation
Two planets outside the solar system have been identified orbiting a star located nearly 250 light-years away from Earth in ...
JWST Captures Unseen Details of Exoplanets in HR 8799 and 51 Eridani Systems
Astronomers used JWST’s coronagraphs in a unique way to capture new images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani ...
Challenging Existing Theories: Jupiter-Like Exoplanets Formed Much Sooner Than We Thought
A new study challenges traditional models of how planets form. A new analysis of existing data suggests that exoplanets with masses comparable to Jupiter may have formed significantly earlier than ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
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When Was the First Exoplanet Discovered?
So in some sense, alien worlds were not first discovered in the 1990s or even the 1980s. It took nearly a century to fully ...
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Two new exoplanets have been discovered orbiting a star belonging to a binary pair located ...
Webb telescope directly observes exoplanet COâ‚‚ for first time
The James Webb Space Telescope has directly observed the key chemical of carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar ...
The future of studying exoVenuses looks bright
What can Venus-like exoplanets, also known as exoVenuses, teach us about our own solar system and potentially finding life ...