Scientists Discover a Planet With the Most Earth-like Conditions Yet

The discovery boosts the chances of finding extraterrestrial life.

Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek

A team of astronomers has discovered a third planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The new planet, Beta Pictoris d, is 100 ...

Rare Pair of Improbably Light ‘Super-Puff’ Planets Is Discovered

They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant ...
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Scientists found a nearby planet that looks much more Earth-like than they thought

Astronomers found nearby exoplanet GJ 3378b may be more Earth-like than thought, strengthening its chances of supporting life ...

Webb telescope discovers hidden planet in famous star system

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a giant planet outside our solar system, called an ...

Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding

Astronomers have discovered a faint new world orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek.
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Hidden planet was lurking in telescope images for years

A faint giant planet hidden in telescope archives for 11 years has finally been confirmed around the nearby star Beta ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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This Giant Planet May Have Survived the Death of Its Star. The James Webb Space Telescope Just Found Its Atmosphere

New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter ...
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Dozens of Star Wars Tatooine-like planets discovered in new space survey

A new satellite survey has found nearly 30 unusual planets orbiting two stars instead of one, similar to Tatooine, the fictional home of Star Wars protagonist Luke Skywalker. Such circumbinary ...