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How the James Webb Space Telescope is helping size up tiny dwarf planetsThe relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.
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Alien life could survive on Earth-like planets circling dead stars, study suggestsLife could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...
MAROON-X was specifically designed to detect tiny exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars by detecting the minuscule ...
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Forget green: Purple may be key to finding planets capable of hosting alien life, study says"We think about green plants and then blue oceans ... such bacteria could be primed to thrive on planets that circle cooler red dwarf stars – the most common type in our galaxy.
For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...
Scientists using a telescope in Hawaii have discovered a never-before-seen dwarf planet lurking within the ring of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. The small new world -- temporarily named ...
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