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Super-Earth less than 20 light-years away is an exciting lead in the search for life
The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away.
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Astronomers Just Found a Nearby Super-Earth That Could Have the Right Conditions for Life
An international team of researchers has identified a strong candidate for a nearby, potentially rocky exoplanet orbiting ...
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A Nearby Planet Four Times Earth’s Mass Was Just Found, and NASA Is Paying Close Attention
Earth, called Ross 508 b, orbiting a small red dwarf star just 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made using the Subaru Telescope, marks the first detection by a new observational instrument ...
Astronomers have found strong evidence of a giant gas planet orbiting a star in a solar system close to our own sun. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long ...
A team of astronomers at the New South Wales have announced the discovery of an exoplanet sitting solidly in the habitable zone of its parent star. The new planets -- there are three altogether -- ...
Some of the most promising places to look for extraterrestrials have remained, so far, mostly hidden from astronomers. Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Earth-like worlds may be closer and more plentiful than anyone imagined. Astronomers reported Wednesday that the nearest Earth-like planet may be just 13 light-years away -- or ...
Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...
How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...
A potentially habitable planet about the size of Earth is orbiting the star that is nearest our solar system, according to scientists who describe the find Wednesday in the journal Nature. The newly ...
The conditions favouring the rise of advanced aliens are much rarer than previously thought, according to a new study, which ...
Discovered: Once Earth's ruined we should hightail it for the Tau Ceti system; how reindeers get red noses; one in two men will get cancer; what flying squirrels have in common with Top Gun. A ...
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