Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...
Scientists have discovered over 6,000 planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. More than half of ...
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How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.
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Suppose scientists discovered planets better for life than Earth
Out of all the planets in the Universe, Earth is clearly the best for life, right? Wrong. Earth may be great, but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be even better for life. Behold, ...
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Some objects we thought were planets may actually be tiny black holes from the dawn of time
Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...
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