CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...
Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that’s 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. “We thus show that Earth-size ...
Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...
As many as 200 worlds beyond our solar system discovered by astronomers may be larger than estimated, which could influence the search for extraterrestrial life. That's the theory of a team of ...
Some of the planets could be home to liquid water, but it remains unclear whether life could exist on such strange worlds. Astronomers Find 7 Earth-Size Planets Around A Nearby Star A small, faint ...
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