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Breaking: Earth-Like Planets Discovered in Our Galaxy
"Let's count down 11 recently discovered Earth-like planets! When Earth is no longer habitable, where could humans go? These ...
Scientists compile library for evaluating exoplanet water
By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...
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Habitability Of Exoplanets Studied By NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Telescope is investigating the habitability of exoplanets. NASA explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...
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Uranus’s upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades. Now, scientists have shown why
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Observations of Uranus in the near-infrared from 1992 to 2018 reveal that the planet’s upper ...
Solar wind power likely governs Uranus' thermosphere temperature
Uranus's upper atmosphere has been cooling for decades—and now scientists have shown why. Observations from Earth have shown ...
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NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...
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'Ridiculously smooth': James Webb telescope spies unusual pancake-like disk around nearby star Vega — and scientists can't explain it
The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
NASA's Roman Telescope gets new tech to hunt for alien worlds around distant suns
The Roman Coronagraph Instrument, designed to block starlight, will help scientists detect faint light from exoplanets. The ...
Nearly three years since launch, Webb is a hit among astronomers
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.