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James Webb Space Telescope rules out Earth-like atmosphere on rocky planet

August 14, 2025 3:03 pm

TRAPPIST-1 d is a rocky world 40 light-years away, orbiting a cool red dwarf at just 2% of Earth’s Sun distance, on the inner edge of its temperate zone.

Artificial Intelligence helps find 50 new planets from NASA's old data

August 26, 2020 11:07 am

This will help scientists focus their resources and time on confirmed planets instead of wasting their time trying to identify new ones with a longer method used till now. This will also help them rank planets that can have a similar atmosphere like Earth's.

Scientists discover three 'potentially habitable' planets, just 40 light-years away

May 02, 2016 9:30 pm

All three planets had the "winning combination" of being similar in size to Earth, "potentially habitable" and close enough so their atmospheres can be analysed with current technology, he told AFP.

60 billion planets in Milky Way could support life

July 02, 2013 3:26 pm

These planets in the habitable zone of a parent star may have the ability to sustain liquid water.

Scientists find neighbor star with 3 planets in life-friendly orbits

June 26, 2013 2:49 pm

That planet and two newly found sibling worlds are bigger than Earth,but smaller than Neptune.

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