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NASA amazed by never-before-seen 'waterworld' planet eight times bigger than Earth
The exoplanet, known as GJ 1214 b, was detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and dubbed a "waterworld" by the science ...
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NASA discovers a planet much larger than Earth
NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth.
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Super-Earth discovery reveals an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...
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Supersonic winds rage on planet over 500 light-years from Earth
Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...
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“Nothing like this has ever been seen before”: Strange planet found in Solar System
This places it between Earth and Neptune in a size range that typically divides exoplanets into two different classes: super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. Super-Earths are rocky planets larger than Earth ...
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Planet less than 20 light-years from Earth could sustain alien life
A planet that may support alien life has been ... HD 20794 d, which is larger than Earth, was detected by a team including scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland.
Two buried ‘supercontinents’ hiding inside Earth could be much older than previously thought
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...