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Bookmark or Share- Exoplanets - NASA ScienceAn exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve confirmed more than 5,600 exoplanets out of the billions that we believe exist.
- NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First ExoplanetResearchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
- Discovery Alert: With Six New Worlds, 5,500 Discovery ...NASA's Exoplanet Archive confirmed four new worlds, bringing the total past 5,500. On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists announced the discovery of six new exoplanets, stretching that number to 5,502.
- NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone ...NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
- Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth PlanetCaltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.
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