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Webb Telescope’s Exoplanet Breakthrough Reveals a Saturn-Mass World in a Sculpted Young Debris Disk
Might the next Earth-like world be lurking in the brilliance of a nearby red dwarf, biding its time for the appropriate technology to uncover it? The James Webb Space Telescope has issued a resounding ...
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Webb’s Direct Glimpse of TWA 7b Unveils a Young, Cold Exoplanet in a Sculpted Debris Disk
Is the quest for habitable planets set to be revolutionized by a planet in plain sight a planet that was invisible until today, due to the glare of its host star? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...
Astronomers find a giant hiding in the 'fog' around a young star
Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...
On This Day: NASA's New Horizons gets closest look yet at Pluto
On July 14, 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest ...
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Mapping twin star systems helps astronomers find new planets
Astronomers discover a new strategy for detecting exoplanets: look for aligned binary stars that reveal hidden worlds more ...