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NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable conditions
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
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NASA detects a possibly habitable planet via James Webb Space telescope
The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed ...
Finding an ocean on an exoplanet would be huge, and the Habitable Worlds Observatory could do it
On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...
Webb space telescope makes stunning discovery on 3-year anniversary
The James Webb Space Telescope has made yet another stunning discovery to round out three years of space exploration. This ...
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NASA discovers a 'super-Earth' with possible oceans orbiting a nearby red dwarf star
NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's TESS telescope.
A new alloy is enabling ultra-stable structures needed for exoplanet discovery
A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space ...
NASA tests shrinking metals to help it find more exoplanets
Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...
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Negative thermal expansion alloy to enable stable lenses to hunt for exoplanets
Because it shrinks when other materials expand, Allvar Alloy 30 can be used to strategically compensate for the expansion and ...
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NASA detects new planet with temperatures that suggest habitable ... - AOL
The planet, named TWA 7b, was detected by the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever put into space, according to NASA. Nature - PHOTO: Evidence for a sub-Jovian planet in ...