Category:Exoplanets

This is the category for exoplanets, planets outside our solar system.

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• 25 December 2020: 'Earth-based life can survive in hydrogen-rich atmospheres': MIT professor Dr Seager tells Wikinews about her research on organisms thriving in oxygen-less environment
• 7 July 2020: Astronomer Anthony Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet with Wikinews
• 10 October 2019: Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics
• 14 September 2019: Astronomers find water vapour in atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18b
• 20 September 2018: NASA's TESS spacecraft reports its first exoplanet
• 21 April 2018: NASA launches exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS
• 6 January 2018: Mysterious dimming of Tabby's star likely due to space dust, not alien superstructures, say scientists
• 3 November 2017: Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet
• 8 June 2017: Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet
• 18 May 2017: Simulations show planet orbiting Proxima Centauri could have liquid water

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2M1207, the first exoplanet directly imaged.
Image: European Southern Observatory.