NASA says 7 planets will align tonight. When's the last time this happened?
After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.
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2 newly found exoplanets reignite an outstanding question about our solar system
The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
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Odds of human-like lifeforms on other planets may be more likely than previously thought: study
“Our framework applies not only to Earth, but also other planets, increasing the possibility that life similar to ours could exist elsewhere.” The proposals of the paper, published in the peer ...
Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...
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Harvard Scientists to Help Lead NASA’s New SPHEREx Mission
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are leading a major part of NASA’s new SPHEREx mission to study ...
Four small planets discovered around one of the closest stars to Earth – an expert explains what we know
Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s Star are much too faint to be seen directly, so how were they found? The ...
Atmospheres of new planets might have unexpected mixtures of hydrogen and water
All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...
"Venus kiss" happens Saturday as the planet passes between the Earth and sun
Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...
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Four tiny planets are orbiting one of our nearest stars
(The absolute nearest star system to us, Proxima Centauri, has three stars circling each other, which changes the dynamics of planet formation and orbits). Barnard's Star is a type called an M ...