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The universe is giving birth to a planet 3180 times more than Earth
The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite (ESA) has captured the closest exoplanet ever formed.
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This new satellite is designed to observe planets outside the Solar System
CHEOPS is the result of cooperation between the European Space Agency and the University of Bern.
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The 5 most freaky planets in the world have been revealed in the last year
In 2019, astronomers have caught many strange and unimaginable exoplanets, far different from every object in the Solar System.
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Super-Earth discovered very close to the solar system
Astronomers found the exoplanet Proxima c orbiting the red dwarf Proxima Centauri, only 4.2 light-years from Earth.
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Detected two 'super Earths' in habitable zones
The researchers found that two exoplanets that are nearly eight times the size of the Earth could have liquid water, orbiting stars close to the sun.
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17-year-old student discovered a new planet
After three days of practice at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Scarsdale High School students found a new exoplanet in the TOI 1338 star system.
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Detect planets that may contain life 100 light-years from Earth
TESS, NASA's 'planetary hunt' program, has found a first habitable exoplanet about the size of Earth, orbiting a star about 100 light-years from us.
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Detecting an Earth-like planet located very close to us
According to Science Alert, this is the right planet to study life in the Milky Way, and help us better understand the planets scattered in this universe.
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'Extraterrestrial' exoplanet discovered as dense as cotton candy
Astronomers found nearly 15 exoplanets in the Kepler 51 star system with a density of less than 0.1 grams of matter per cubic centimeter.
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Europe launches satellite search for extrasolar planets
CHEOPS satellite is like a telescope, designed to measure the thickness, structure and size of many planets outside the solar system.
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The greatest scientific discoveries of 2010 (Part 1)
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Unusual red dwarf system detected
Astronomers have just confirmed the existence of two planets orbiting in very different orbits in the red dwarf system (called the GJ 15 system).
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The giant gas planet only takes 18 hours to orbit the host star
Astronomers found a Jupiter-like exoplanet located very close to the orange dwarf star 1,060 light-years from Earth.
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Nobel Physics 2019 honors discoveries about cosmology and exoplanets
The Swedish Academy of Sciences on October 8 announced the 2019 Physics Prize for scientists James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
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Look for strange signals from distant exoplanets
A group of astronomers is looking for strange signals from distant exoplanets, or so