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Study finds exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e is unlikely to have a Venus- or Mars-like atmosphere

In the search for habitable exoplanets, atmospheric conditions play a key role in determining if a planet can sustain liquid ...
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In Search of Other Worlds: What Is an Exoplanet?

These distant worlds are called exoplanets: planets that exist outside our solar system. Most of the exoplanets scientists have discovered so far orbit stars within the Milky Way, but some lie even ...

Could this be a new Earth? NASA studies an exoplanet that may have water and an atmosphere

The delicate balance that has allowed life to flourish here on our little planet has not been completely discovered elsewhere.

JWST finds an exoplanet around A pulsar whose atmosphere is all carbon

Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous ...
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What If You Landed on Proxima Centauri b?

Just four light-years from Earth lies the closest known exoplanet, Proxima Centauri b. It has captured imaginations because it could be one of the first exoplanets where extraterrestrial life might ...

JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially Habitable Exoplanet

If we’ll ever find life outside our solar system, it will not be an instant discovery. Save for the slim possibility of an intelligent civilization beaming a message in our direction, evidence for ...