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An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Trained on data from NASA's exoplanet-hunting missions, the open-source ExoMiner++ deep learning model uses an advanced ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of what appears to be an "ice cold Earth," a chilly but potentially habitable rocky world similar to our own located less than 150 light-years away. As ...

A newly identified Earth-sized exoplanet with a year-long orbit may lie near its star’s habitable zone, but extreme cold could limit its chances of hosting liquid water.

An illustration of what it might look like to visit Kepler 16 b, a nearby exoplanet with twin suns. Credit: NASA Imagine a planet where molten diamond rains from the sky, hurled sideways by winds that ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. I'm joined by the show's two hosts, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello, hello. REGINA BARBER AND EMILY KWONG: Hey, Ailsa ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP-121b for an entire orbit with the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of a ...