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Methods developed to study the Earth’s climate help in the search for habitable planets
(ORDO NEWS) — The recently launched James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and future telescopes such as the Extremely Large Telescope…
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Astrophysicist says life on other planets could be found within the next 25 years
(ORDO NEWS) — Finding life on planets outside the solar system has a chance in the next 25 years, says…
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Walking robots could help explore other planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Today, NASA uses wheeled rovers to explore the Red Planet, but research involving scientists from Texas A&M…
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Astronomers have discovered many planets that are half water, but life is unlikely to exist there
(ORDO NEWS) — The vast majority of stars in our galaxy are red dwarfs, small and dim. Therefore, the question…
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Astronomers discover planets half water
(ORDO NEWS) — In addition to rocky and gas planets, there are worlds near red dwarfs where solid rocks are…
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Scientists study how collisions destroy new planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Every solid body in the solar system is constantly subjected to impacts, both strong and weak. Even…
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Incredible ‘shrinking’ planets may be missing link between worlds
(ORDO NEWS) — The discovery of several exoplanets that appear to be collapsing appears to eliminate the “missing link” in…
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NASA unveils ambitious new plan to detect signs of life on distant planets
(ORDO NEWS) — The NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts is known for supporting extraordinary ideas in the fields of astronomy…
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Astronomers discover possible planets around cataclysmic variable stars
(ORDO NEWS) — The planet is able to influence the flow of matter from one star to the second, changing…
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Why do sand clouds form on some planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but off our planet they have many chemical varieties.…
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For the first time in 18 years, 5 planets and the Moon are about to line up in the sky
(ORDO NEWS) — During June, sky watchers had the pleasure of watching all five planets that we can see with…
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Astronomers have discovered three giant planets that will be swallowed up by an expanding star
(ORDO NEWS) — An international team of astronomers using the radial velocity method has discovered the third planet in the…
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Why are the planets spherical
(ORDO NEWS) — Exploring the solar system and looking beyond it, we find that objects are mostly spherical, and the…
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Planets swallowed up by stars can “rip off” their shells
(ORDO NEWS) — Scientists have built a model of the absorption of planets by stars during their transformation into red…
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5 planets are about to line up in the sky and you don’t even need a telescope
(ORDO NEWS) — Skywatchers have something special to look forward to at the end of June as all five planets…
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How long is a day on other planets
(ORDO NEWS) — We are accustomed to a 24-hour day, but on other celestial bodies in the solar system, this…
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How are planets formed
(ORDO NEWS) — How did the planets of the solar system form? The leading theory, known as the “protoplanetary hypothesis”,…
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Planets scream when torn apart, scientists say
(ORDO NEWS) — A new study suggests that some planets may emit scream-like bursts of cosmic radio waves as they…
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New experiment provides insight into the chaotic behavior of flows on planets
(ORDO NEWS) — The flows on planets like Earth are characterized by many features, such as rotation and temperature differences…
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Chinese are going to look for planets similar to Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — China will publish a detailed mission plan to search for Earth-like exoplanets within a month. A news…
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Soon the parade of planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Parades of planets, visible without the help of telescopes or binoculars, occur irregularly, only once every few…
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Astronomers watch the birth of planets around a young star
(ORDO NEWS) — At a distance of 508 light-years from Earth, quite close by cosmic standards, the young star AB…
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Astronomers scan 800 pulsars to see if any of them have planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in 1992. They found a pair of them orbiting the pulsar PSR…
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What the planets of the solar system will look like in place of the Moon
(ORDO NEWS) — An amateur astronomer has edited an unusual video about what our firmament would look like, provided that…
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Life-enabling moons can probably only form around small planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Earth’s moon is large for the planet’s size, and many astronomers have long believed that this fact…
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Even dying stars can still form planets
(ORDO NEWS) — Usually the age of the planet is close to the age of the star. So, the Sun…
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When humanity starts sending its ships to other planets, what should be our goal?
(ORDO NEWS) — Essentially, there are two options: A) Use the artificial intelligence (AI) of astronauts to sow the seeds…
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Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitable
(ORDO NEWS) — Earth’s moon is vitally important in making Earth the planet we know today: The moon controls the…
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How many Earth-like planets are in the Milky Way
(ORDO NEWS) — Earth-like exoplanets, including those with features such as continents and liquid water on the surface, may be…
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Planets discovered in new study will be swallowed up by parent stars
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, USA, recently discovered three planets orbiting…
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Here’s what would happen if two gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn collided
(ORDO NEWS) — Astrophysicist Dr Alastair Gunn explains the outcome of celestial collisions – and what this tells us about…
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Venus: properties of the planet’s interior
(ORDO NEWS) — It is assumed that the structure of Venus is similar to the Earth . The iron core…
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There can be up to 150 planets in the solar system, astronomers say
(ORDO NEWS) — Astronomers are urging to reclassify Pluto as a planet and recognize as such a larger number of…
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