A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...
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Astronomers may have found a new Earth-size world, but there’s a twist
Astronomers are closing in on what looks like a rare prize: a world almost the size of Earth, circling a Sun-like star at a ...
NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...
The candidate is coined HD 137010 b. It would orbit a K-type dwarf star approximately 146 light-years from Earth. The evidence comes from a single transit pattern seen in K2 data from 2017: the star ...
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...
A planet that looks faintly familiar has emerged from old space telescope data, though it may be far from welcoming.
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for signs of an atmosphere—and potentially life-supporting conditions. Early James ...
If Earth-like planets require an extremely rare supernova encounter, then water-depleted rocky planets might be exceptional. But if cosmic-ray immersion is sufficient—and common—then the conditions ...
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