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Exoplanet Discoveries Pass the 6,000 Mark, Shedding Light on How Our Solar System Compares With the Rest of the Universe

The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
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The James Webb Space Telescope has photographed its first undiscovered planet

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Webb Telescope Spots Possible Signs of Atmosphere on “Goldilocks” Exoplanet

JWST data hints that Trappist-1e may have an atmosphere. More transits will test if this world could support liquid water.

Earth-like planet that may contain water studied by NASA's Webb telescope

Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e may contain an atmosphere and liquid water, NASA scientists said. Research into the exoplanet is ...

Astronomers spot white dwarf that guzzled a Pluto-like world

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a white dwarf - a highly compact stellar ember - that appears to ...

A rocky planet in its star’s ‘habitable zone’ could be the first known to have an atmosphere – here’s what we found

New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.

NASA's tally of planets outside our solar system reaches 6,000

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...