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New Al program classifies planets and predicts probability of life
Space
A new technique uses artificial intelligence to classify planets, based on the likelihood that they support life.
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How we discovered 840 minor planets beyond Neptune and what they can tell us
Singularity Hub
Scientists have discovered 840 small worlds in the distant and hard-to-explore region beyond Neptune. This is the largest set of discoveries ever made. These little icy worlds can help us tell the solar system’s history and test the idea that there’s a yet unseen planet lurking in the outer solar system.
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Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time
MIT News
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, and have discovered nearly 80 possible exoplanets amid some 50,000 stars.
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Super earth most likely candidate for hosting alien life
Sky News
Kepler 452b is in the middle of a so-called abiogenesis zone, which means it has the right amount of UV light to start life.
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The closest exoplanet to earth could be highly habitable
Scientific American
A new study suggests Proxima Centauri could sustain liquid water on its surface
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One third of exoplanets could be water worlds with oceans hundreds of miles deep
Smithsonian
A new statistical analysis suggests seas hundreds of miles deep cover up to 35 percent of distant worlds
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Study, there may be exoplanets out there even better suited for life than earth
Science Alert

The search for a habitable exoplanet has been a frustrating one. Although we've found a bunch of rocky planets orbiting at the right distance from their star, further investigation has so far mostly yielded nothing but barren poisonous rocks lashed
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There could be up to 10 billion warm and cozy Earth-like planets in our home galaxy, new research reveals
Business Insider
NASA/Ames/JPL-CaltechAn artist's concept of the planet Kepler-452b (right), the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of a star that
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Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
National Geographic
A super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say.
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Nasa’s tess spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets and is poised to find thousands more
Singularity Hub
In just over a year, TESS has identified more than 1,200 planetary candidates, 29 of which astronomers have already confirmed as planets.
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Habitable planets vol 1
Isaac Arthur
First installment of a spin-off of the Fermi Paradox Series, focusing on how very un-Earth-like worlds might support life. This video focuses on how life mig...
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Nasa’s roman space telescope will unveil undiscovered planets
Engineering.com
The Roman Space Telescope is expected to make amazing discoveries, just like whom it’s named after.