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How Close Is the Nearest Earth-Like Planet, Really?Astronomers are actively searching for Earth-like planets, with thousands of exoplanets now confirmed. While Proxima Centauri b is the clos...
How Close Is the Nearest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet?Astronomers have identified Proxima Centauri b, a rocky planet just over four light-years away, as the closest potentially habitable exopla...
Astronomers edge closer to confirming atmosphere on potentially habitable exoplanetAstronomers may confirm soon that an Earth-like environment on TRAPPIST-1 e, a rocky planet 40 light-years distant. The James Webb Space Te...
A shadow, a signal, and the search: How scientists are using Earth’s shadow to find aliensTwo new studies are reshaping the way astronomers search for signs of extraterrestrial life. One, led by Penn State University and NASA’s J...
- New NASA app clicks selfies in 'out of the world' locations
Washington, Aug 23 (IANS) NASA has rolled out a new app that allows you to take a picture of yourself in a virtual spacesuit, posing in fro...
Solar System 2.0 may have water-rich planets: StudySeven planets revolving around TRAPPIST-1, a star 40 light-years away from Earth, have piqued scientists' interest because of the possibili...
Google artificial intelligence helps NASA discover solar system like oursKepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google to scour...
- This is how Google AI helped NASA discover two exoplanets
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approach from Google researchers helped NASA discover ...
- Scientists find miniature version of our solar system with eight planets (Lead, Correcting headline)
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASAs Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth p...
- TRAPPIST-1 planets may still have water, finds Hubble
London, Sep 1 (IANS) The outer Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 might still harbour substantial amounts of wat...
- TRAPPIST-1 could be twice as old as our solar system
Washington, Aug 12 (IANS) The intriguing ultra-cool dwarf star of the TRAPPIST-1 system of seven Earth-size worlds could be up to twice as ...
- Astronomers detect strange 'radio signals' coming from dwarf star
London, July 17 (IANS) To the delight of those trying to find life beyond our solar system, a team of astronomers has claimed to have picke...
Cambridge University researchers discover smallest-ever starWith a size just a sliver larger than that of Saturn, the gravitational pull at its stellar surface is about 300 times stronger than what h...
- NASA's Webb telescope to search for signs of alien life
Washington, June 16 (IANS) Finding signs of life on the earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system and on Saturn's moon Enceladus are amo...
- Astronomers find hottest giant planet
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered the hottest planet ever known, with a dayside temperature of more than 4,300 degrees ...
- Orbital details of TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet confirmed
Washington, May 23 (IANS) Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, scientists have confirmed that the outermost and least understood planet in ...
- 'Iceball' planet about the same mass as Earth discovered
Washington, April 27 (IANS) Scientists have discovered an "extremely cold" new planet about the same mass as Earth, and the same distance f...
Maybe there are aliens next doorThat seems uncomfortably close given that our 'hood — the Milky Way — stretches some 100,000 light years, but such numbers are deceptive.
Exoplanet discovery brings 'Earth 2.0' closer to realityThe US space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope found the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.
Newly found planets tidally locked to star, have short orbitsThree of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to hav...