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Candidate planet HD 137010 b may be Earth-sized but very cold — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Candidate planet HD 137010 b may be Earth-sized but very cold

An international team reports a candidate rocky planet, HD 137010 b, orbiting a Sun-like star about 146 light-years away. The object is slightly larger than Earth and appears to have an orbital period similar to Earth’s, though it could be much colder. The discovery comes from a single transit

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is deepening study of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a collection of at least seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf about 40 light-years away. Follow-up work after the initial 2015 ground-based detections established the system’s seven roughly Earth-sized worlds, with Spitzer measurements used