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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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Exoplanet climate 'Decoder' aids search for life
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): After examining a dozen types of suns and a roster of planet surfaces, Cornell University astronomers have developed a practical model -- an environmental colour "decoder" -- to tease out climate clues for potentially habitable exoplanets in galaxies far aw
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Astronomers could spot life signs orbiting long-dead stars
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New York [USA], April 30 (ANI): The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets -- particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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Astronomers find a planet that never was
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Tucson [Arizona], April 21 (ANI): Astronomers have found out that what was thought to be a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight, suggesting that what was heralded as one of the first exoplanets to ever be discovered with direct imaging likely never existed.
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Earth-size, habitable-zone planet found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 16 (ANI): A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalysed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
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Researchers reveal findings after peering into atmosphere of hottest plane
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 9 (ANI): After peering into the scalding atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter planet, researchers have reported the findings in a new study. In the study led by Jake Turner of Cornell University, a team of scientists digs deep into the transmission spectrum for th
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Sulfur 'spices' alien atmospheres
Updated : 5 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 6 (ANI): It is said that variety is the spice of life and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins University's researchers suggest that a certain elemental 'variety' -- sulfur -- is indeed a 'spice' that can perhaps point to signs of life.
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Far away planet where it rains iron spotted by scientists
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Santiago [Chile], Mar 12 (ANI): An exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 degree Celsius, which is sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights with strong winds then cool down the iron vapour so that it conde
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Cotton candy-like planets may actually have rings
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 3 (ANI): A new research has found that some of the extremely low-density, "cotton candy like" exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings.
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Astronomers spot far-away planet that could possibly support life
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Cambridge [England], Feb 27 (ANI): Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth which could be potentially habitable. This discovery might take us a step closer to search for life on planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
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Sub-Neptune sized planet validated using Habitable-zone Planet Finder
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): The Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical instrument has confirmed an object initially observed by the Kepler spacecraft is an exoplanet.
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Cold Neptune and two Temperate Super-Earths found orbiting near stars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 14 (ANI): A "cold Neptune" and two possibly inhabitable worlds are part of a set of five newly found exoplanets and eight exoplanet candidates, who have found themselves orbiting nearby Red Zwilling Stars identified by a team led by Carnegie's Fabo Feng and Paul Bu
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