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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.
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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...
SETI Institute4d
Exploring HD 20794 d: A Super-Earth Laboratory for Habitability
The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed ...
University of Geneva7d
Observational tango reveals a Super-Earth
An observational tango has thus emerged between the two methods. The transit method generates a large number of “candidates”, ...
IFLScience on MSN5d
"We've Been Wrong For A Long Time": Protoplanetary Disks Are Much Smaller Than We Thought
The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.
Knowridge Science Report3d
Earth-like planets may be more common than we thought
Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...
A world of diamonds? NASA James Webb Space Telescope discovers a gem-rich planet five times larger than Earth
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...