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Scientists Discover Massive Alien “Exosatellite” (futurism.com)

2026-07-26 | by Victor Tangermann | tags: exosatellite, brown dwarf, european southern observatory

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After Discovering 6,000 Exoplanets, Researchers May Have Found the First Exomoon (cnet.com)

2026-07-26 | by Joe Hindy | tags: exoplanet, exomoon, kepler

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Shape-shifting mirrors on NASA’s new space telescope could unveil Jupiters like our own (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-22 | by Eshan Raul | tags: nasa, james webb space telescope, coronagraphs

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Faintest planet ever spotted from Earth has been hiding in plain sight (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: gliese 486 b, exoplanet, astronomy

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The Search for Another Earth-Like Planet Just Took a Big Step Forward (wired.com)

2026-07-19 | by Jorge Garay | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140 b, habitable zone

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Astronomers Thrilled After Discovering Best Spot Yet to Look for Alien Life (futurism.com)

2026-07-19 | by Frank Landymore | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140b, helium atmosphere

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Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star’s Habitable Zone (cnet.com)

2026-07-18 | by See Full Bio | tags: exoplanet, lhs 1140b, harvard center for astrophysics

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Astronomers Found the First Atmosphere on a Planet in Another Star's Habitable Zone (cnet.com)

2026-07-17 | by See Full Bio | tags: exoplanets, habitable zone, lhs 1140b

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Astronomers Find an Atmosphere On a Nearby Earth-Like Planet (slashdot.org)

2026-07-17 | tags: lhs 1140 b, helium detection, red dwarf stars

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Daily briefing: CRISPR gets an AI-designed upgrade (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-17 | by Graham | tags: crispr, exoplanet, frontiers in environmental archaeology

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Found: a rocky exoplanet with an atmosphere — could it host life? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-17 | by Shenai | tags: lhs 1140b, nasa, exoplanet

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Helium escaping from atmosphere of nearby rocky exoplanet in a habitable zone (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: helium, exoplanet, rocky planet

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We've seen helium baked off a rocky exoplanet's atmosphere (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: helium, exoplanet, lhs 1140

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Visiting the stars (and planets, and telescopes) in VR (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-03 | tags: htc vive focus 3, smithsonian starstruck, black hole

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A New Catalog of Stellar Rotation Periods for over a Million Stars (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-02 | by Lexi Gault | tags: tess, stellar rotation, exoplanets

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Astronomers Find Biggest Super-Puff Planets Yet That Are Lighter Than Cotton Candy (slashdot.org)

2026-06-27 | get Super-Puff Planet Model Kit → | tags: james webb space telescope, nasa tess satellite, exoplanets

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NASA's TESS spacecraft finds two 'cotton candy' planets in one system (engadget.com)

2026-06-26 | by Mariella Moon | get Cotton Candy Planet Model → | tags: tess, nasa, exoplanets

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Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-25 | get Magnetic Field Sensor Kit → | tags: exoplanets, magnetic fields, gj 436

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James Webb Telescope uncovers salt clouds on a strange pink planet 57 light-years away (techspot.com)

2026-06-24 | get NASA James Webb Telescope Model → | tags: james webb telescope, salt clouds, gj504b

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Watched a Planet Get Absolutely Scorched (cnet.com)

2026-06-17 | by See Full Bio | get James Webb Space Telescope Model → | tags: nasa, james webb space telescope, hd 80606 b

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A distant brown dwarf coplanar to a warm Jupiter and a hot super-Earth (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-17 | by Jones | tags: tess, brown dwarf, hot super-earth

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JWST maps the weather on a hot gas giant 700 light-years away (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-21 | get JWST Weather Map Poster → | tags: james webb space telescope, wasp-94a b, exoplanet atmospheres

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See the clouds streaming and vanishing around this planet — 690 light years away (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-21 | by Castelvecchi | get Exoplanet Cloud Simulator → | tags: wasp-94 a b, james webb space telescope, exoplanet atmospheres

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Scientists May Have Discovered 27 Star Wars-Like Planets With Two Suns (cnet.com)

2026-05-11 | by See Full Bio | get Star Wars Planet Model Kit → | tags: circumbinary planets, star wars, university of new south wales

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Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-28 | by Shalma Wegsman | get Ice Crystal Growing Kit → | tags: ice phases, lawrence livermore national laboratory, water molecular structure

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'Project Hail Mary': Real Space Science, Real Astrophotography (slashdot.org)

2026-03-29 | by Posted | get Space Telescope Camera → | tags: project hail mary, andy weir, roscosmos

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Astronomers Pinpoint the Best 45 Places in the Galaxy to Look For Alien Life (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-19 | get NASA Astrobiology Book → | tags: exoplanets, alien life, galaxy

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NASA Telescope Discovers Nearby Planet With Deep Similarities to Earth (futurism.com)

2026-02-07 | by Frank Landymore | get Spacecraft → | tags: candidate, earth, exoplanet

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NASA Deploys Orbital Telescope Designed to Do Something Incredible (futurism.com)

2026-01-13 | by Frank Landymore | get Telescope → | tags: apai, astronomers, exoplanets

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Ultra-low-density exoplanets observed around a young star (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-07 | by Nascimbeni | get Exoplanet → | tags: density, et al, exoplanets