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Super-Earth exoplanets may have built-in magnetic protection from churning magma — and that's good news for life
"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...
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How to make a super-Earth: The universe's most common planets are whittled down by stellar radiation
The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...
In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...
The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.
This week, a new analysis of Jupiter's atmosphere estimated that the gas giant has 1.5 times more oxygen than the sun.
How can magnetic fields help determine the habitability of exoplanets? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...
Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ...
Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...
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Strange discovery offers 'missing link' in planet formation: 'This fundamentally changes how we think about planetary systems'
A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...
Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...
Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...
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