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6 Exoplanets That Could Become Humanity’s Next Home
What if humanity could no longer live on Earth? Perhaps a catastrophic event forced us to find a new home among the stars.
Many exoplanets to be found by coming high-powered telescopes will probably be tidally locked — with one side permanently facing their host star — according to new research by astronomer Rory Barnes ...
Astronomers are especially interested in the habitability of these kinds of planets, which always face their star with the same side, because they are incredibly common in the universe. When you ...
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A Planet Orbiting A Pulsar Has Just Been Discovered, And It’s Made Almost Entirely Of Carbon
In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost ...
Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...
Could scientists find life in the clouds of exoplanet atmospheres? This is what a manuscripton the arXiv preprint server ...
The exoplanet LHS 3844b (left) is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits the star LHS 3844 (right). Discovered in 2018 by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey, LHS 3844b is located 48.6 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...
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