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  James Webb Space Telescope directly images its first exoplanet: 'TWA 7b'

  Science | June 26, 2025 11:28 IST

  A newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star smaller than our Sun, located roughly 110 light-years from Earth in the constellation Antlia.

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  Indian scientists discover 'giant' alien planet 13 times bigger than Jupiter

  Science | May 31, 2023 13:25 IST

  The densest alien planet, 13 times larger than Jupiter, has been discovered by an international group of researchers led by Professor Abhijit Chakraborty of the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad.

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  Radio Telescope discovers Saturn-like exoplanet. Check details

  Science | August 06, 2020 11:09 IST

  Scientists have discovered a Saturn-like exoplanet using a radio telescope for the first time. The detected planet is known as TVLM 513b. This particular planet has a similar mass to Saturn and an orbit analogous that is pretty similar to Mercury.

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  Water discovered for the first time on super-Earth exoplanet

  Science | September 12, 2019 16:24 IST

  K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only exoplanet known to have both water and temperatures that could be potentially habitable, according to the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.  

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  Exomoons may be home to alien life: Study

  Science | June 07, 2019 13:34 IST

  Gravitational forces between all particles were calculated and used to update the positions, velocities and accelerations in the computer models of the planet and its ring system.

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  Shimmering 'super-Earth' in constellation Cassiopeia discovered

  Science | December 22, 2018 7:39 IST

    Located 21 light years away from us, this planet, dubbed HD219134 b, has a mass almost five times that of Earth, which is considered a so-called "super-Earth". 

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  Scientists discover over 100 new exoplanets using NASA's Kepler Space telescope

  Science | December 04, 2018 14:37 IST

  If a planet crosses in front of its parent star, then the observed brightness of the star drops by a small amount. The Kepler Space Telescope detected many exoplanets using this method.

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  First known moon outside Solar System discovered

  Science | October 04, 2018 13:44 IST

  "This would be the first case of detecting a moon outside our solar system," said David Kipping, an assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University.

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  NASA planet hunting probe 'TESS' shares first image

  Science | September 18, 2018 13:19 IST

  The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sent the images that were captured from its initial science orbit. It will spend 2 years monitoring 26 such sectors for 27 days each.

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  New exoplanet twice the size of Earth found, 145 light years away

  Science | September 10, 2018 16:56 IST

  The exoplanet 'Wolf 503b' is in the Virgo constellation and it orbits its star every six days and is thus very close to it, about 10 times closer than Mercury is to the Sun.  

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  Alien worlds with water common outside solar system: Study

  Science | August 19, 2018 12:02 IST

  Data from the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope and the Gaia mission indicates that many of the known planets may contain as much as 50 per cent water.

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  Earth-based telescopes get better at observing exoplanets with low-cost attachment

  Science | October 10, 2017 11:25 IST

  Scientists have developed a new low-cost technology that allows telescopes on Earth to observe exoplanets with greater precision.

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  Know the Exoplanets where aliens can exist

  World | December 28, 2013 8:02 IST

  New Delhi: An exoplanet is a planet outside the Solar System. For centuries philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of detecting them. The first confirmed detection of exoplanet