Exoplanets

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Recently discovered solar system could seed life between adjacent exoplanets

Sunrise From the International Space Station

UChicago scientists reveal new clues into how Earth got its oxygen

Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

Illustration of Closeup of a planet's surface

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

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

View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

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

Kepler mission rendering

New exoplanet is smallest to be precisely measured

Exoplanet

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

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Citizen scientists help discover new exoplanet in ‘habitable zone’