Scientists discover four Earth-like planets orbiting Barnard's Star
Scientists have discovered four new Earth-like rocky planets orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light-years away. Using ...
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Where did Earth’s water come from? AAAS Fellow Karen Meech investigates
The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...
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4 miniature, Earth-like planets discovered extremely close to our sun
Pollard A quartet of Earth-like worlds, each about 20% to 30% the size of our planet, circle one of our closest stellar ...
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The nearest single star to Earth has four small planets
Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.
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Several planets found orbiting star less than 6 light-years away
Research published in October 2024 revealed that one planet was rotating around ... it is second to the Mauna Kea Observatory ...
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Hawaii-based telescope aids in discovery of four exoplanets
The researchers used data from the Hawaii island-based Gemini Telescope ... entirely comprised of planets smaller than Earth. The innermost planet has a mass 26% of Earth, the second has a mass ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
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Should giant asteroid head for Earth, Hawaii is first line of defense
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Astronomers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered an asteroid in 2024 that had a small chance of colliding with the Earth in 2032. The asteroid, 2024 YR4 ...
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Fireball blazes across Hawaii as object falls to Earth
A camera at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has captured an object as it burned up on re-entering Earth's atmosphere on 8 February. The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera, owned by the National ...