Posts Tagged: EXOPLANET

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Three More Exoplanets Discovered In The Habitable Zone, Including The Smallest One Yet

By RoboPanda

NASA's Kepler telescope has discovered three more exoplanets in the habitable zone of their solar system to add to our growing tally.

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Exoplanet Discovered Only 4.3 Light-Years Away In Alpha Centauri, Our Closest Neighbor

Exoplanet Discovered Only 4.3 Light-Years Away In Alpha Centauri, Our Closest Neighbor

By RoboPanda | 4 comments

The closest star system to our sun, Alpha Centauri, has at least one exoplanet orbiting it, and it's broken some records already.

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Kepler Finds 11 Solar Systems With 26 Planets, We Call Dibs

Kepler Finds 11 Solar Systems With 26 Planets, We Call Dibs

By RoboPanda | 1 comment

NASA launched the Kepler telescope into space in March of 2009, and it has already found all sorts of cool sh-t.

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Three Smallest Exoplanets Discovered (And Other Awesome Space News)

Three Smallest Exoplanets Discovered (And Other Awesome Space News)

By RoboPanda | 4 comments

Two months after the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star and one month after the first discovery of the two exoplanets similar in size to Earth (Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, pictured above), researchers using the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and public data from NASA's Kepler mission have discovered the smallest exoplanets yet.

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Smallest Exoplanets Orbiting A Sun-Like Star Discovered

Smallest Exoplanets Orbiting A Sun-Like Star Discovered

By RoboPanda | 1 comment

Just a few weeks after the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, NASA announced another record-breaking discovery.

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Have We Found Earth 2?

Have We Found Earth 2?

By Dan Seitz

The European Southern Observatory recently reported some findings, and while there aren't any wacky planets made of diamond or planets blacker than a Hot Topic customer thinks his soul is, there is a possibility we've found Earth 2.

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