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339 results for: exoplanet
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Plumbing the Archives
A meditation on 90 years of Science News.
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Rock, Rattle and Roll
Planetary scientists seek to fill in gaps in outer solar system’s formative years.
- Planetary Science
Planetary Peekaboo
Astronomers aren’t playing games when it comes to spotting an exoEarth.
- Astronomy
Onward and Skyward
With new efforts aimed at the stars, China seeks to revive its astronomical reputation.
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Earth’s new neighbor looks familiar
Planet discovered in Alpha Centauri, just a few light-years away.
- Planetary Science
Maps reveal clouds on distant exoplanet
Astronomers chart the atmosphere of Kepler-7b, some 1,000 light-years away.
- Astronomy
An Earth-sized hell circles faraway star
Kepler-78b, an Earth-sized, extremely hot exoplanet made of rock and iron, is the smallest with known diameter and mass.
- Astronomy
Astronomers explain planets’ backward motion
Giant planets in distant orbits may be reversing the direction of their closer-in neighbors.
- Planetary Science
Uninhabitable Earth
A recent estimate of the lifetimes of the habitability zones of Earth and various exoplanets suggests Earth could become unable to support life as soon as 1.75 billion years from now, when the sun brightens before dying out.
- Humans
Letters from the August 13, 2005, issue of Science News
Bay listen It was interesting to read of processing mundane noise to produce an ultrasound image of the geology of Los Angeles (“Seismic noise can yield maps of Earth’s crust,” SN: 6/11/05, p. 382). A big question in the state is the deep structure of San Francisco Bay. Clearly, the bay and the valleys extending […]
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
A Saturnian storm, an asteroid visit, a leaky Betelgeuse and more in this week's news.
- Space
Atom & Cosmos
Runaway planets, the return of Neptune and tricky antineutrinos in this week’s news.
