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Kepler 452b and several exoplanets are similar to Earth, but there's not an exact twin

What planet is most like Earth? Reseachers have identified several exoplanets similar to our planet, but none that are an ...
Space.com

1,284 Exoplanets Found: NASA's Kepler Space Telescope Discovery in Pictures

On May 10, 2016, NASA announced the discovery of 1,284 more alien planets by is Kepler Space Telescope, a haul that includes nine exoplanets that might be habitable. See the discovery explained in ...
SpaceNews

NASA’s Roman Mission Predicted to Find 100,000 Transiting Planets

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will create enormous cosmic panoramas, helping us answer questions about the evolution of our universe. Astronomers also expect the mission to find thousands ...
NDTV

Transit Method

Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, hidden by stellar glare and detected indirectly. Astronomers identify them by tracking star wobbles or dips in brightness during ...
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Everything We Know About NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA has a number of space telescopes operating, from the big famous ones used for a variety of projects like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope to lesser-known ones like NuSTAR, which looks in ...
EurekAlert!

Transit Method (IMAGE)

Earth-bound astronomers use the transit method--measuring the dim in a star's light when a planet passes directly between the star and its observer--to study planets outside of the Solar System. A new ...