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A 25-year-old astronomer used a four-inch telescope in a wooden shed and found a signal that paved the way for discovering thousands of planets outside the solar system.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 08/06/2026 at 11:49

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NASA surprises the world by releasing an unprecedented map from the TESS mission with images of nearly 6,000 potential planets outside the Solar System, including 700 confirmed exoplanets, signs of cosmic collisions, and worlds located in potentially habitable zones.

Alisson Ficher 23/05/2026 at 17:17

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It took us 30 years to confirm 6,000 exoplanets, but a single project using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has already found over 10,000 candidates in just one year by analyzing 83 million stars with artificial intelligence.

Valdemar Medeiros 09/05/2026 at 10:42

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27 possible circumbinary worlds emerge from a single scan, placing planets with two suns at the center of astronomical search and suggesting that the cosmos may be hiding an entire population of Tatooines still invisible to traditional methods

Carla Teles 06/05/2026 at 19:15

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Without an atmosphere, planets in a neighboring solar system boil and freeze at the same time with a difference of more than 500°C.

Caio Aviz 14/04/2026 at 14:58

Sistema planetário com órbitas retrógradas ao redor de uma estrela brilhante, em imagem com realismo semelhante a captura de telescópio espacial.

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“Reversed” Planetary System Discovered with All Planets in Retrograde Orbits, Challenging Classical Planetary Formation Models and Forcing Astronomers to Reevaluate How Solar Systems Organize in the Universe

Caio Aviz 23/02/2026 at 07:40

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Chile Builds 39.3-Meter Telescope in Atacama Desert with €1.45 Billion Investment to Search for Life on Exoplanets and Observe the Universe’s First Galaxies

Noel Budeguer 18/02/2026 at 16:13

Planeta KELT-9b, o exoplaneta mais quente já descoberto, orbitando sua estrela a curta distância com atmosfera incandescente

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From 4,300 °C to -223 °C: The Most Extreme Planets Discovered by Science

Jefferson Augusto 09/02/2026 at 16:14

Telescópio espacial Pandora em órbita da Terra observando estrelas para análise precisa de exoplanetas e sistemas planetários

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Pandora Telescope Begins Operation to Map Stars with High Precision, Reduce Uncertainties About Exoplanets, and Reorganize How Science Interprets Distant Worlds Based on Stellar Behavior

Caio Aviz 09/02/2026 at 10:22

Ilustração do satélite Pandora da NASA analisando a atmosfera de um exoplaneta durante trânsito estelar

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Pandora Will ‘Unmask’ Stained Stars: NASA Mission Promises to Clean Up the Signal That Deceived Telescopes for Decades, Reveal the Atmosphere of 20 Exoplanets, and Speed Up the Hunt for Habitable Worlds

Felipe Alves da Silva 12/01/2026 at 11:41

Ilustração de uma super-Terra na zona habitável orbitando uma estrela anã vermelha.

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NASA Identifies a “Super-Earth” Just 137 Light-Years Away in Its Star’s Habitable Zone, with a Detail That Intrigues Scientists: An Extremely Short Year, Lasting Only 19 Days

Felipe Alves da Silva 10/01/2026 at 14:59

exoplaneta em formato de limão orbitando um pulsar observado pelo telescópio James Webb

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NASA Discovers Lemon-Shaped Exoplanet With Unprecedented Atmosphere and Extreme Composition

Jefferson Augusto 20/12/2025 at 20:43

A 25-year-old astronomer used a four-inch telescope in a wooden shed and found a signal that paved the way for discovering thousands of planets outside the solar system.

NASA surprises the world by releasing an unprecedented map from the TESS mission with images of nearly 6,000 potential planets outside the Solar System, including 700 confirmed exoplanets, signs of cosmic collisions, and worlds located in potentially habitable zones.

It took us 30 years to confirm 6,000 exoplanets, but a single project using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has already found over 10,000 candidates in just one year by analyzing 83 million stars with artificial intelligence.

27 possible circumbinary worlds emerge from a single scan, placing planets with two suns at the center of astronomical search and suggesting that the cosmos may be hiding an entire population of Tatooines still invisible to traditional methods

Without an atmosphere, planets in a neighboring solar system boil and freeze at the same time with a difference of more than 500°C.

“Reversed” Planetary System Discovered with All Planets in Retrograde Orbits, Challenging Classical Planetary Formation Models and Forcing Astronomers to Reevaluate How Solar Systems Organize in the Universe

Chile Builds 39.3-Meter Telescope in Atacama Desert with €1.45 Billion Investment to Search for Life on Exoplanets and Observe the Universe’s First Galaxies

From 4,300 °C to -223 °C: The Most Extreme Planets Discovered by Science

Pandora Telescope Begins Operation to Map Stars with High Precision, Reduce Uncertainties About Exoplanets, and Reorganize How Science Interprets Distant Worlds Based on Stellar Behavior

Pandora Will ‘Unmask’ Stained Stars: NASA Mission Promises to Clean Up the Signal That Deceived Telescopes for Decades, Reveal the Atmosphere of 20 Exoplanets, and Speed Up the Hunt for Habitable Worlds

NASA Identifies a “Super-Earth” Just 137 Light-Years Away in Its Star’s Habitable Zone, with a Detail That Intrigues Scientists: An Extremely Short Year, Lasting Only 19 Days

NASA Discovers Lemon-Shaped Exoplanet With Unprecedented Atmosphere and Extreme Composition

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

He transformed an abandoned plastic water tank into an underground house in the “hobbit hole” style, using only repurposed pallet wood, without heavy machinery or expensive labor.

China transforms desert-devastated area into the world’s largest artificial forest, planting trees for 60 years, blocking sand that reached Beijing, and creating a “green lung” of 92,000 hectares in a region once considered lost.

Toyota launches “family hybrid van” with 7 or 8 seats, 1.8 hybrid engine, fuel consumption of up to 23.8 km/l, and a price equivalent to about R$ 104,000 without taxes, below the Tiggo 8 Pro Plug-in Hybrid sold in Brazil: meet the Noah Hybrid 2026 in Japan.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.