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385 results for: exoplanet

  1. Space

    More like Faux-malhaut b

    The Spitzer Space Telescope fails to find a visible planet circling where Hubble saw one four years ago.

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  2. Space

    Aura of life captured in Earthshine

    Light from Earth reflected off the moon contains the kind of information that could prove useful in the characterization of faraway exoplanets.

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  3. Space

    Distant world looks ripe for life

    Extrasolar planet hunt spots its most Earthlike orb yet.

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  4. Space

    Super-Earth spotted in life-friendly zone

    The latest exoplanet entry creeps closer to long-sought goal of finding habitable worlds elsewhere.

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  5. Space

    Atom & Cosmos

    Planets born with off-kilter orbits, the planet formerly known as a star and more in this week's news.

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  6. Space

    First Earth-sized planets netted

    The Kepler space telescope gets one step closer to its mission of discovering habitable worlds by finding two orbs of terrestrial proportions orbiting a distant sunlike star.

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  7. Space

    American Astronomical Society Meeting

    Highlights from the 220th AAS meeting held June 10-14 in Anchorage, Alaska.

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  8. Space

    Planet search finds lots of little guys

    The latest collection of extrasolar bodies to be revealed is rich in worlds not much bigger than Earth.

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  9. Space

    Super-Earths may come in two flavors

    As more exoplanets are discovered, evidence emerges that worlds can be either fluffy or dense.

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  10. Space

    Antennas reveal Antennae

    A giant radio telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert produces its first images.

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  11. Space

    Existence of habitable exoplanet questioned

    A Swiss team has failed to confirm what has recently been claimed to be the first planet outside the solar system that might be right for life.

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  12. Space

    Distant world looks too ripe for life

    The first extrasolar planet to be discovered in its star’s habitable zone is probably inhospitably hot.

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