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Nearby exoplanet stinks of rotten eggs, scientists discover | Science & Tech News
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We all have difficult neighbours – even the Earth. Now scientists have found that a planet close to our own world stinks of rotten eggs. The research, from scientists at the Johns Hopkins University in the US, suggests that the atmosphere of the planet HD 189733 b, a Jupiter-sized gas giant, has trace amounts of…
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Distant exoplanet K2-18 b ‘could have water ocean and signs of life’, scientists say | Science & Tech News
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NASA’s James Webb Telescope has detected carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere of exoplanet K2-18 b, a potentially habitable world more than eight times the size of Earth. The ground-breaking discovery has led astronomers to consider the possibility that K2-18 b may belong to a unique class of exoplanets known as “Hycean” planets, which…