Scientists discover 3 Earth-size exoplanets that may have double sunsets — like Tatooine in Star Wars

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

JWST Finds a Planet That Shouldn’t Exist – and It’s Made Almost Entirely of Carbon

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

Three Earth-sized planets discovered in a compact binary system

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...
Telluride Daily Planet

Election season 101

Tuesday, Nov. 4, is of course, Election Day. All ballots must be received by the clerk by 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 to be counted. In Telluride, voters can head to the Fruen Building/County Annex, which will ...
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Earth-Size Planet Found In TOI 700 System's Habitable Zone

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...
Astronomy

Before spacecraft, how did astronomers determine the mass, size, and composition of the giant planets?

Planetary size was determined pre-spacecraft by measuring the planet's angular diameter and its distance from Earth (in AU, later converted to terrestrial units after the AU was accurately measured ...
New Scientist

A planet the size of Saturn could orbit the nearest sun-like star

A giant planet the size of Saturn orbiting a sun-like star has potentially been identified in our nearest neighbouring stellar system, Alpha Centauri. At just four light years from Earth, Alpha ...
Phys.org

Team confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away. A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at ...
ExtremeTech

Astronomers May Have Underestimated the Size of Hundreds of Exoplanets

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Mashable

A Jupiter-size planet as delicate as cotton candy provokes its star

An exoplanet orbiting close to its host star triggers violent flares that are destroying its atmosphere, according to new research from the European Space Agency's Cheops mission. Credit: Janine ...
ABC News

Could our solar system have 9 planets after all? Astronomers may have confirmed possible existence.

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar system ...