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Exoplanets

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Recently discovered solar system could seed life between adjacent exoplanets

Apr 26, 2017
Sunrise From the International Space Station

UChicago scientists reveal new clues into how Earth got its oxygen

Oct 23, 2020
Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

Jul 21, 2020
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NASA’s TESS, Spitzer missions discover a world orbiting a unique young star near us

Jun 24, 2020
Visualization of a blue planet half in shadow, with mass of clouds gathered over the bright side

NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers its first habitable planet, first world with two stars

Jan 9, 2020
View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

Dec 17, 2019
Dave Charbonneau

The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau (Ep. 36)

A leading astronomer searches the stars for habitable planets and alien life.

Gemini Observatory

Nearly a decade in the making, exoplanet-hunting instrument installed in Hawaii

Oct 2, 2019
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New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Jul 30, 2019
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Lecture to explore the hunt for other worlds, life on other planets

Mar 20, 2019
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Citizen scientists help discover new exoplanet in ‘habitable zone’

Jan 8, 2019
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