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This artist rendering shows what the sub-Neptunian exoplanet TOI-421 b might look like. In a new study, scientists have found new evidence of how planets of this type can lose their atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and D. Player (STScI)

Cosmic disappearance: NASA solves the mystery of shrinking planets

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Researchers have found that certain planets outside the solar system are shrinking due to the loss of their atmosphere
Artistic representations of planets outside the solar system that could support life as we know it. Figure: Habitable Planets Laboratory, University of Puerto Rico, Arecibo.

How many Earth-like planets orbit Sun-like stars in the habitable zone?

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TESS simulation. Source: NASA.

Goodbye Kepler, hello Tess: a new telescope will take over the baton in the search for planets

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Comparison between the Kepler 90 system and the solar system. NASA illustration - from Wikipedia

Computational learning helped discover a solar system containing eight planets

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The intensity of the light reaching us from a distant planet raises questions and even wild speculations: is it surrounded by alien technology? A simulation of the "Dyson count", which some explain as a possible solution to the mystery. Source: Vedexent / Wikimedia.

Did aliens build giant structures around a distant sun?

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Simulation of a moon around an extrasolar planet. Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Was a moon discovered outside the solar system for the first time?

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A new catalog based on Kepler space telescope data has found 219 additional planet candidates. Of these, 10 Earth-like planets orbit their star in the "seat zone," one that is at a distance that allows liquid water to exist on the surface. Illustration: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

The Kepler space telescope found 219 more planets and revealed a clear gap between terrestrial planets and mini-Neptunes

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The largest dwarf planets at the edge of the solar system. Source: Konkoly Observatory/András Pál, Hungarian Astronomical Association/Iván Éder, NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Is the largest world in the solar system that doesn't yet have a name about to finally get one?

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Simulation of extrasolar planets. Source: NASA

NASA Announces 1,284 New Extrasolar Planets - Largest Harvest to Date

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Illustration: Earth (left) and the 452% larger planet Kepler 60b. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

The discovery of the "Ben David" planet of the Earth by the Kepler space telescope has been confirmed

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The number of planet candidates discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope Credit: NASA/SETI/J Rowe

Kepler's New Life / Clara Moskovitch

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The chart compares the planets in our solar system with Kepler 186, a five-planet system 500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Cygnus group. The five planets orbit Kepler 186 - an M-type dwarf, a star about half the size and mass of the Sun. Figure: NASA Ames Center, ST Institute, JPL-Caltech

Similar but also different: an almost twin planet to Earth orbiting a red dwarf in an orbit that allows life

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

The next incarnation of the Kepler space telescope / Clara Moskowitz

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Multiple planets. NASA version

715 new planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft were confirmed at once, including two slightly larger than Earth in the habitable zones of their suns

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Kepler 78b. Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics artist illustration

A planet the size of the Earth was discovered, but in a suicide version into the Sun

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Planets in another solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Seven planets pop up on every hill - Kepler's discovery broke the record for planets in one solar system

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An imaginary system of planets outside the solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

Approaching a thousand planets outside the solar system

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An artist's illustration of the Kepler space telescope designed to locate planets outside the solar system. Image: NASA

Efforts to repair the Kepler telescope failed

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A collection of planets discovered by the Kepler space telescope. Image: NASA

The Kepler space telescope, which discovered planets outside the solar system - broke down

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Illustration of Kepler-76 Graphics: "dood Evan". Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

A planet outside the solar system was discovered using a new method based on Einstein's theory of relativity

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A visualization of the planet "Kepler 62f", against the background of the sunrise of the mother star, "Kepler 62", the bright star to the right is the neighboring planet, 62e. Drawing: NASA

Swim on distant planets

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Illustration of the system. In the center of the figure one of the planets and in the distance you see the double sun and the other planet.

For the first time, two new planets orbiting a double sun have been discovered

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Discovering planets outside the solar system using the eclipse method, the method used by the Kepler space telescope. Photo: NASA

The formation of minor planets does not require a high abundance of heavy elements

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Transit of a planet in front of its sun. Illustration from a NASA video

Kepler's new crop: 11 new solar systems with 26 planets

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A planet orbiting a double sun for illustration Courtesy: Lynette Cook, Lior Taylor, Mark Garlick of the University of San Diego.

Two planets each orbit two suns

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