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Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...
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2014: First Earth-Size Planet In The Habitable Zone Of Another Star Discovered
In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...
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PUNCH sees first light, prepares to study how the Sun creates our space weather
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission launched March 12, sending up a constellation of four ...
The first meteor shower of spring peaks soon, and another is close on its heels
There are several meteor showers we can count on seeing every year as Earth passes through the debris trails of known comets and asteroids orbiting the sun, and two of them are about to be in full ...
TESS detects new sub-Neptune exoplanet more than three times larger than Earth
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new ...