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Today, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 5,197 in 3,888 planetary systems, with another 8,992 candidates awaiting confirmation....

DTN - November 10, 2022

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When we think about finding life beyond Earth, especially on exoplanets, we immediately want to search for the next...

DTN - November 8, 2022

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Less than a year after it went to space, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has already demonstrated its...

DTN - October 28, 2022

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In a recent study accepted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , an international team of...

DTN - October 27, 2022

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Exoplanet discovery space hosts all kinds of interesting “super” worlds. There are super-Earths, super-Neptunes, and, of course, Super-Jupiters....

DTN - October 22, 2022

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Astronomers have spotted barium in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. With its 56 protons, you have to...

DTN - October 20, 2022

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Finding oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere is a clue that life may be at work. On Earth, photosynthetic...

DTN - October 18, 2022

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In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), the successor to the Kepler Space Telescope that...

DTN - October 16, 2022

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