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Mysterious Alien Planet Has Water in Its Atmosphere. Could Life Survive There?
By Chelsea Gohd published
In a major first, scientists have detected water vapor and possibly even liquid water clouds on a strange exoplanet that lies in the habitable zone of its host star about 110 light-years from Earth.
Alien Planet Twice the Size of Earth May Be Able to Support Life
By Passant Rabie published
GJ 357d could have water on its surface.
Newly-Discovered, Nearby Alien World Has 3 Blazing-Red Suns
By Rafi Letzter published
The next step, researchers said, is to figure out whether it has an atmosphere.
NASA's New Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope Has Spotted Its Tiniest Alien World Yet
By Rafi Letzter published
NASA's new exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered its smallest planet yet: a world somewhere between the sizes of Earth and its smaller sister, Mars.
NASA Wants to Build a 'Starshade' to Hunt Alien Planets
By Mike Wall published
Such a mission would have to keep two spacecraft, separated by thousands of miles, aligned within 3 feet of each other.
Astronomers Spot Twin Planets Carving Holes in a Brand-New Solar System
By Rafi Letzter published
The two planets appear to have cleared a wide gap in their young star's protoplanetary disk. This is the first-ever observation of this behavior.
Physicists Scramble to Understand the Extreme Crystals Hiding Inside Giant, Alien Planets
By Rafi Letzter published
Planetary scientists are calling on mineral physicists to help them figure out the strange chemistry going on inside super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.
Super-Earths Have Weird Orbits Because They’re Permanently Off-Kilter
By Mindy Weisberger published
Researchers may have solved a long-standing mystery of some exoplanets' oddball orbits.
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