CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists have found a planet way out in the cosmos that’s close in size and content to Earth — an astronomical first. But hold off on the travel plans. This rocky world is so ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - For the first time, scientists have found a planet beyond the solar system that not only is the same size as Earth, but has the same proportions of iron and rock, a ...
The number of confirmed exoplanets, or worlds orbiting distant suns, shot past 1,000 last week, according to the semi-official Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. That’s pretty heady stuff considering ...
Researchers from MIT have located a lava-filled world about 700 light-years away that’s 40 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our sun. It’s considered one of the shortest orbital periods ...
This illustration compares our Earth with the newly confirmed lava planet Kepler-78b. Kepler-78b is about 20 percent larger than Earth, with a diameter of 9,200 miles, and weighs roughly 1.8 times as ...
Scientists following up on data from the Kepler planet-hunting telescope have identified Earth’s closest twin yet—at least in terms of size and mass. Measuring only 1.2 times the radius of Earth, ...
A team of astronomers has found the first Earth-sized planet outside the solar system that has a rocky composition like that of Earth. This exoplanet, known as Kepler-78b, orbits its star very closely ...
Scientists this week announced the discovery of a new planet, roughly 400 lightyears away, that they are calling Kepler 78b. Kepler is rare in that it contains similar features to that of the planet ...
A new analysis of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft increases the number of habitable exoplanets thought to exist in this galaxy. By Dennis Overbye After nine and a half years in orbit, 530,506 stars ...
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