NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS, or the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has passed an impressive milestone, having identified 5,000 potential exoplanets. Launched in 2018, the…
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Exoplanets come in many sizes, and sometimes they also come in unusual shapes. The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered a planet…
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Astronomers have found a planet in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star, but its orbit is so elongated that it would have…
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When it comes to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, we tend to be very Earth-centric: We look for planets that are similar…
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This artist’s impression shows L 98-59b, one of the planets in the L 98-59 system that’s 35 light-years away. The system contains four confirmed…
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UBCO’s Brendan Dyck is using his geology expertise about planet formation to help identify other planets that might support life. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center…