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NASA announced on Friday that the The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will be one of two mission scheduled for launch in 2017. TESS will use an array of six telescopes to perform an all-sky survey to discover transiting...
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One of the unique characteristics of Earth which sets it apart from other known planets is its oceans. Such large bodies of surface water have not yet been found elsewhere, although a number of moons, including Europa, Enceladus and Titan...
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Astronomers have taken the first photo of what is thought to be a giant planet still in the process of forming near its star.The star, HD 100546, is about 335 light-years from Earth and is very young...
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Scientists believe they could potentially detect signs of life around white dwarf stars in the near future.White dwarf stars come to be when a star about the size of our sun burns through its store of hydrogen fuel in...
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The Kepler space telescope has added another significant discovery to its growing list - the smallest exoplanet found so far (again) orbiting a sun-like star, it was announced on Wednesday.The new planet orbits the star Kepler-37, which is...
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Scientists with NASA’s Kepler announced today that they have discovered a planetary system containing the smallest planet ever found orbiting a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system called Kepler-37 which is...
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Exoplanets are now being discovered on a regular basis, including ones that may be potentially habitable. But when even the nearest ones are so far away compared to the planets in our own solar system, how could they be studied...
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There was more exciting exoplanet-related news this morning - a team of astronomers announced a new study today which estimates that there are likely about 4.5 billion "Earth-like" planets in our galaxy!The results come from...
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On Wednesday, New Scientist reported that researchers at Penn State University led by Ravi Kumar Koppaparu have refined the range of the habitability zones around stars commonly called "Goldilocks zones." This is the region surrounding a star in...
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When searching for potentially habitable exoplanets, one of the key factors to take into consideration is the habitable zone, the region around a star where temperatures could allow liquid water to exist on the surface of any rocky planets that...
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