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Upcoming Telescope Can Pick out Exoplanets Against Glare of Stars

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An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an instrument called a coronagraph that will fly aboard the WFIRST space telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Matthew Luem For the last few years, NASA has been quietly working away on a new space telescope […]

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Alien exoplanets could have better conditions for life than Earth, scientists claim

Our lovely blue planet might not be quite as hospitable for life as other worlds orbiting distant stars (Image: Getty) Planets orbiting distant stars could have more abundant ecosystems packed with a more varied range of lifeforms than Earth, a new study has claimed. A team from the University of Chicago analysed conditions on various