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New Earth-sized planet discovered orbiting a star that will live for 100 billion years

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An international team discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting a long-lived red dwarf, providing unique insights into potentially habitable worlds. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers using global robotic telescopes have discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultracool red dwarf. Milky Way. This planet, which is confined and likely has no atmosphere due to its intense radiation, … Read more

Martian meteorites found on Earth provide unprecedented insight into the Red Planet

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Chassigny meteorite in cross-polarized light – Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego When a meteorite hit Mars eleven million years ago, pieces of the Red Planet flew into space – and some of them landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, providing unprecedented evidence about the planet’s composition. Now scientists at UC … Read more

Planet Parade: What’s Really Going On With June’s Planetary Alignment | CNN

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Matias Delacroix/AP/File A telescope could help detect Uranus and Neptune as they appear to align with other planets early Monday morning in most parts of the world; Sunday is ideal for spectators in North America and Europe. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments … Read more

Vulcan disappears: real-life Star Trek planet turns out to be a stellar illusion

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Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional ‘Vulcan’ in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech New research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit 40 Eridani A, and attributes detected signals to the star’s surface activity. A planet believed to orbit the … Read more

The real ‘Star Trek’ planet was actually just an illusion caused by a ‘nervous’ star

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a mottled brown planet orbits a fiery orange star. thousands of stars dot the background

An extrasolar planet that has been compared to Spock’s homeworld of Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star. The extrasolar planet or ‘exoplanet’ (a term for a planet outside our solar system) was proposed to orbit a star called 40 Eridani A or … Read more

The Death of Vulcan: Research reveals that the planet is actually an astronomical illusion caused by stellar activity

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b, often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech × close to Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b, often compared … Read more

Rivers of lava on Venus reveal a more volcanically active planet

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Witnessing the blood-red fires of a volcanic eruption on Earth is memorable. But it would be extraordinary to see molten rock bleeding from a volcano on another planet. That’s close to what scientists have noticed on Venus: two huge, serpentine lava flows oozing from two different corners of Earth’s neighboring planet. “When you see something … Read more

First look inside the bizarre planet reveals what makes it so puffy

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For the first time, the JWST has given us a detailed view of the interior of a world outside our solar system. The extremely strange exoplanet WASP-107b has an atmosphere that is surprisingly low in methane, which suggests that the exoplanet’s interior must be considerably hotter than we thought – and that its core is … Read more

‘A force more powerful than gravity in the Earth’: how magnetism locked itself in our planet

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Geomagnetic field around planet Earth in space.

The image of an atom, with electrons swarming around a central nucleus bursting with protons and neutrons, is as iconic in our perception of science as the DNA helix or the rings of Saturn. But no matter how far we scratch the surface of these basic scientific principles, we can go deeper, focus the microscope … Read more

NASA discovers an Earth-sized planet just 40 light-years away, which is ‘not a bad place’ to hunt for life

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An illustration of the newly discovered Earth-sized exoplanet Gliese 12

Scientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It’s about the size of Earth, is remarkably close to our solar system, and could be comfortable for life as we know it. The extrasolar planet, or ‘exoplanet’, called Gliese 12 b, orbits a small and cool red dwarf star located only about 40 … Read more