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2 years, 2 months ago

Planet that celebrates New Year every 5 days discovered

While the Earth has begun its new orbit around the Sun, it will take it 361 days to complete it and marks a New Year on the planet. Researchers at the University of Southern Queensland have spotted a planet that is so close to the star that it completes one revolution around it in just five days. "Nasa's Transiting Exoplanet …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Proxima D rocky world is discovered orbiting the closest star to our solar system

Daily Mail

One of the lightest exoplanets ever detected by astronomers has been discovered orbiting the closest star to our solar system. At just a quarter of Earth's mass, Proxima D is the third planet to be spotted in the Proxima Centauri system, which lies just over four light-years away from us. It is the third world detected in the Proxima Centauri …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Ahmedabad-based scientists discover star-planet bigger than Jupiter

Hindustan Times

The exoplanet search and study group at the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory, has discovered a new exoplanet orbiting too close to an evolved or aging star with a mass of 1.5 times that of Sun and located 725 light years away, according to Indian Space Research Organisation. A new star planet has been discovered orbiting too close to an evolved …

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5 years ago

Facts about new planet discovered by scientists where it rains iron

India Today

An exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 degree Celsius, which is sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. With ESPRESSO, astrophysicists have detected the trace of iron vapour just at the division between the daytime and the night time sector of the planet. Facts about the planet where it rains iron …

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6 years, 3 months ago

‘Farout,’ the most-distant solar system object discovered

CNN

CNN — For the first time, an object in our solar system has been found more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun. The team has been searching for a super-Earth-size planet on the edge of our solar system, known as Planet Nine or Planet X, since 2014.They first suggested the existence of this possible planet in …

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7 years, 3 months ago

Yet another solar system with 8 planets discovered by NASA's AI

India Today

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday, December 14, announced that "our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth." Our @NASAKepler mission's search for new planets teamed with machine learning to discover another solar …

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7 years, 4 months ago

Newly discovered nearby planet could support life

CNN

Story highlights Newly found exoplanet is the second-closest to our solar system and could support life Ross 128 b orbits a "quiet" star that isn't lashed with radiation CNN — You may want to get used to the name Ross 128 b. Every 9.9 days, it completes an orbit around its host star, Ross 128, which is what’s known as …

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7 years, 8 months ago

Huge Jupiter-like planet discovered by astronomers confounds theory of planetary development

The Independent

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A rare, massive planet that orbits a fast-spinning star has caused …

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9 years, 2 months ago

New planet may have been discovered, researchers say

CNN

Story highlights Planet Nine has an orbit that's "about 20 times farther from the sun" than Neptune "We hope that other people are going to get inspired and start searching," researcher says CNN — You might have a replacement, Pluto. Nicknamed Planet Nine, it “has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from …

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9 years, 7 months ago

Newly Discovered Exoplanet Provides Glimpse Into Jupiter's Past

NPR

Newly Discovered Exoplanet Provides Glimpse Into Jupiter's Past Enlarge this image toggle caption Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis, SETI Institute Danielle Futselaar & Franck Marchis, SETI Institute The discovery of a new planet about 100 light years from Earth could provide clues as to what Jupiter was like early in the life of our solar system. The newly discovered planet, …

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15 years, 5 months ago

Exoplanets Galore! 32 Alien Planets Discovered, Including Super-Earths

Wired

Thirty-two new alien orbs have just been added to the growing list of exoplanets, including several that qualify as "super-Earths," meaning they have a mass only a few times that of our planet and could potentially harbor Earth-like environments. In the past five years, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a special exoplanet-hunting device attached to a 3.6-meter telescope …

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