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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
Astronomers listened to the 'music' of flickering stars—and discovered an unexpected feature
The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...
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The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
At a famous 1950 lunch among physicists, Enrico Fermi wondered, "Where are all the aliens?" How far have we come toward ...
'1 million to 1 billion years': NASA’s TESS telescope is decoding the age secrets of exoplanets
Comparing young and old exoplanets helps astronomers understand how planets form, evolve, and change over time.
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Astronomers listened to the 'music' of flickering stars—and discovered an unexpected feature
Using observations from the Kepler space telescope's K2 mission, we had a rare opportunity to track the evolution of stars during most of their journey through the giant phase of the stellar life ...
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Skywatch: Discovery of ‘irregular moons’ adds to Saturn’s collection
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Space-based telescopes such as Kepler and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have helped comb through patches of sky to identify interesting targets, while the James Webb Space ...