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Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
Space on MSN9d
Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
'Temperamental' stars may be distorting exoplanet observations
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...
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A Newly Discovered Exoplanet Is Now Our Second-Best Target For Webb Telescope, Say Scientists
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its star’s habitable zone. That means liquid ...
Phys.org1mon
Astronomers discover a new dense sub-Saturn exoplanet
A new exoplanet, TOI-6038 A b, has been discovered orbiting a bright late F-type star about 578 light-years away. It is approximately 6.41 times the radius and 78.5 times the mass of Earth, with a ...
Science News1mon
A crumbling exoplanet spills its guts
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...