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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...
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Alien life could survive on Earth-like planets circling dead stars, study suggests
Life could have the time and energy to arise and prosper on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking "Goldilocks zones" ...
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NASA's newest treasure trove of alien planets will help us find our place in the galaxy
A new set of data released by NASA's Kepler mission catalogs 219 newfound alien planet candidates. According to NASA, 10 of the new worlds appear to be rocky in the habitable zones of their stars ...
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Large alien planets may be born in chaos, NASA's retired exoplanet-hunter finds
Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on ...