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343 results for: exoplanet

  1. Space

    Chronicles of Lutetia

    The surprising composition and terrain of an asteroid may provide a variety of lessons about the solar system.

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  2. Space

    Existence of habitable exoplanet questioned

    A Swiss team has failed to confirm what has recently been claimed to be the first planet outside the solar system that might be right for life.

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  3. Space

    New planet small but tough

    Astronomers have confirmed a rocky planet outside the solar system for the first time.

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  4. Space

    Planets take shape in embryonic gas clouds

    A new theory of planetary formation may explain variety seen in extrasolar searches.

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  5. Space

    Astrometry nabs an exoplanet

    long-proposed method of searching for extrasolar planets has finally discovered one — a body six times heavier than Jupiter that orbits a dwarf star 20 light-years from Earth.

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  6. Astronomy

    Passages

    By observing the minieclipses known as transits, when a distant planet passes in front of its parent star, astronomers are learning more about the size, composition, and temperature of exoplanets.

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  7. Astronomy

    Planet found around sun twin in star cluster

    The exoplanet YBP1194b orbits a twin of the sun in the star cluster Messier 67. Astronomers found three planets orbiting stars in the cluster.

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  8. Planetary Science

    Fomalhaut star system is a triple

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  9. Planetary Science

    Rare, free-floating exoplanet found

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  10. Astronomy

    Dust cloud, tail could explain exoplanet’s odd light pattern

    KIC 12557548 b may be ejecting dust from its surface, creating a cometlike tail behind it and an opaque envelope of material around it.

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  11. Astronomy

    Exoplanet dangerously close to demise

    Kepler-91b could be on the brink of death — at least on astronomical time scales.

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  12. Astronomy

    Signs of cloudy skies seen in two exoplanet atmospheres

    Exoplanets GJ 436b and GJ 1214b have signatures of clouds in their atmospheres, but the skies are like nothing seen in the solar system.

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