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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 ...
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Strange object may be a galactic “seed” for planets
A recent study has sparked intrigue by suggesting the existence of a mysterious object from beyond our solar system behaving ...
Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...
New research using Nasa’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may have an atmosphere.
One of the worlds in the TRAPPIST-1 system, a mere 40 light-years away, just might be clad in a life-supporting atmosphere.
Methane gas may signal an atmosphere or geological activity on a distant dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the Solar ...
On May 21, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian object ...
NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...
Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...
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