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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...
NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers planets forming in space's most punishing environments
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...
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Starship Shoots Into Space With Single Banana in Cargo Hold - Futurism
Banana for scale. Banana for Scale. SpaceX's latest test flight of its Starship spacecraft carried a highly unusual payload into space in its massive hold: a single banana.
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This planet is crumbling apart, giving it a giant tail like a comet
The planet BD+05 4868 A is located 140 light-years away, and is around the mass of Mercury. Unlike Mercury, though, this planet orbits in such a tight orbit around its host star that a year there ...
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Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space
A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in the Milky Way that does not orbit a star.
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NASA’s new telescope could spot thousands of exoplanets and ... - CNN
When NASA’s next-generation space observatory launches in a few years, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will expand the search for exoplanets as well as rogue planets, or worlds that travel ...