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Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

Astronomers may have discovered a new Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a Sunlike star just 146 light-years away. Before you ...

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

The Discovery A candidate planet that might be remarkably similar to Earth, HD 137010 b, has one potentially big difference: It could be colder than perpetually frozen Mars. Key Facts Scientists ...

“This is the first planet candidate with Earth-like radius and orbital properties transiting a Sun-like star bright enough ...

An international team including Cornell researcher Jake Turner has developed a novel analysis method capable of uncovering ...

A new discovery in the search for Earth-like exoplanets has just been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on ...

Now, using the world's largest radio telescope project, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ALMA ), ...