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399 results for: exoplanet

  1. 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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  2. Space

    Snapshots from a world off-kilter

    Astronomers at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Miami presented images of exoplanets in high-angle orbits.

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  3. Space

    Smallest exoplanet yet is found

    Finding a planet just under twice Earth's size puts astronomers closer to discovering an Earth counterpart.

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  4. Space

    Backward planets may have flipped into place

    Reversed orbits among ‘hot Jupiters’ decreases chance of Earthlike neighbors.

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  5. Space

    Twinkle, twinkle, little dot

    A faint object was once thought to be the first extrasolar planet to be photographed. Then it wasn’t. But now it may go down in the history books after all.

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  6. Space

    Still no Earths, but getting closer

    Two newly discovered planetary systems shed light on the likelihood of producing terrestrial planets.

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  7. Space

    Super-Earth found close by, may host water

    Astronomers say this discovery and others suggest that finding habitable planets is 'only a matter of time.'

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  8. Star Cents

    How the cost of NASA’s next big space telescope skyrocketed.

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  9. Space

    First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet

    Moving one step closer to finding the fingerprints of life in a habitable planet beyond the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.

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  10. Space

    First detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet

    Moving one step closer to finding the fingerprints of life in a habitable planet beyond the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet.

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  11. Beneath that blazing facade

    Researchers revamp ideas about what’s in the sun.

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  12. Planetary Science

    Small exoplanet discovered

    Astronomers have discovered the smallest planet known that is beyond the solar system and orbits an ordinary parent body.

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