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Researchers detect a rare, young protoplanet 'WISPIT 2b' in the gaps of planet-forming disks, for the first time
WISPIT 2b is present between the third and fourth disks of WISPIT, 434 light-years away from Earth, and was captured by ...
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Plate Tectonics And CO2 On Planets Suggest Alien Civilizations “Are Probably Pretty Rare”
Earth is pretty special, and as far as we know, the only place in the universe with life. But how special is it really? There ...
A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the cosmos.
Data suggests K2-18b is a "world with an ocean that is teeming with life," said study lead author Nikku Madhusudhan, an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge in England. A whopping 8.6 times ...
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Exoplanet Discoveries Pass the 6,000 Mark, Shedding Light on How Our Solar System Compares With the Rest of the Universe
The rate of finding these distant worlds has recently increased, with astronomers scrambling to accommodate the data ...
Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...
New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.
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