Astronomers will soon have a new tool for hunting exoplanets, as the W. M. Keck Observatory’s Keck Planet Finder (KPF) instrument recently took its…
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NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a space-based exoplanet hunter, has resumed operations following a technical issue that caused it to be put into…
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The James Webb Space Telescope has directly imaged an exoplanet for the first time. This is exciting because it is very rare for exoplanets…
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Astronomers have discovered an intriguing exoplanet that could be entirely covered in water. The potential ocean world is called TOI-1452 b, located around 100…
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Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere for the first time, demonstrating how using the new…
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The study of exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, has exploded in the last decade. Thanks to missions like the Kepler Space Telescope…