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This year's list of top exoplanet discoveries includes an incredible photo of a baby world.
Rocky exoplanets are even stranger than we thought A new astrogeology study suggests that most nearby rocky exoplanets are quite unlike anything in our Solar System Date: November 5, 2021 Source ...
And over the next 5,000 years, 319 more star systems will be able to see Earth. If there are exoplanets orbiting these nearby stars, they could witness our planet as it crosses in front of the sun.
Using exoplanets as dark matter detectors Temperature of planets reveal new details, scientists say Date: April 22, 2021 Source: Ohio State University Summary: In the continuing search for dark ...
Professor Greg Rieker and Ryan Cole (PhDMechEngr’21) have developed an experiment that recreates the climates of planets beyond our solar system right in the lab. By reaching the same high-temperature ...
The James Webb Space Telescope, launched into space in 2021, has directly imaged and discovered a young gas giant exoplanet, which is approximately the size of Saturn, nearly 110 light years away ...
The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured evidence of it.
NASA’s new mini-documentary boasts a surprisingly high degree of production value — full of animations, light folksy music, wit (within the first minute, a space historian discusses how 16th ...