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'Cloud Planet' Appears Among Cygnus Constellation, Could Be Habitable
Kepler-51 belongs to a class of giant worlds known by fairy-tale names like
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Slide Ruler - A simple invention that changed the history of science in the world
In the 350 years before the advent of electronic computers, the slide ruler became a unique tool to help mathematicians, scientists, engineers, economists, doctors, mili…
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China plans to search for Earth 2.0, using a satellite containing up to seven telescopes
This month, Chinese researchers will publish details of a second Earth-finding project.
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China will launch satellite to search for Earth clones
With 10 to 15 times stronger than NASA's Kepler telescope, the new Chinese satellite will find exoplanets in the habitable zone of a Sun-like star.
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'Second Jupiter' discovered 17,000 light-years from Earth
Analysis of a trove of old image data from the Kepler space telescope reveals a gas giant exoplanet very similar to Jupiter.
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NASA has found 20 promising planets for human habitation
This discovery brings the total number of habitable, near-Earth-sized exoplanets to about 50.
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Calculations to save money on alcohol and great applications in science
Although Kepler's calculation was only intended to reduce the cost of a barrel of wine, mathematicians later relied on his achievement to maximize the efficiency of ever…
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Spot 5 planets as easy to live as Earth
Space magazine lists a number of planets that could be the most perfect copies of Earth out of more than 4,000 confirmed exoplanets.
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NASA discovers more than 300 new planets thanks to Machine learning technology
With an operating system based on Machine learning technology, 301 new planets have been discovered by NASA.
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Up to 6 billion 'Earths' are wandering in outer space
There may be as many as 36 alien races living in our galaxy, so how many planets are equivalent to Earth?
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Find the 'mirror image' of the Solar System
An alien planetary system orbiting the star has been found to have many similarities to the Earth and the Sun.
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Earth and Moon viewed from a distance of 1.4 billion km
Cassini, a spaceship with the mission to explore Saturn, captures green planets during its last days in outer space.
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Discovered the 'predatory' star
The light erupts as the white dwarf sucks matter from its nearby brown dwarf recorded by the Kepler Space Telescope.
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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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Discovering many cosmic mysteries, people yearn to find new worlds
For the past 10 years, scientists have observed gravitational waves and captured images of black holes. These technological advances have strongly motivated the desire t…