Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half ...
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
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Exoplanets: Alien Worlds
Gravitational microlensing occurs when one star passes directly in front of a background star ... three of the smallest rocky exoplanets yet detected—each no larger than Mars—closely orbit ...
Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.
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A Second Earth? Scientists Confirm a Nearby Exoplanet That Could Host Life
Astronomers have officially confirmed the existence of HD 20794 d, a super-Earth located just 20 light-years away, with ...
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A Third Of The Most Common Exoplanets May Host Life, Say Scientists
These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...
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An exoplanet bonanza and hopes of extraterrestrial life
The first exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, had just been announced, and almost no-one believed it. The method used to detect it was indirect, the signal was small, and the data were hard to parse.