55 Cancri e
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55 Cancri e

Category: Extreme Worlds | Discovered by NASA’s Spitzer & Other Observatories A World That Sparkles in Theory Imagine a planet where mountains might glitter, where the crust could be rich…
Kepler-22b
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Kepler-22b

At 2.4 times Earth’s radius, Kepler-22b sits in a curious category between rocky and gaseous worlds. Astronomers call these “super-Earths” or “mini-Neptunes,” planets that may possess thick atmospheres or vast global oceans.
TOI-700 d
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TOI-700 d

In early 2020, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) quietly made history. Among thousands of worlds it was scanning, it found a small, rocky planet orbiting a dim red-dwarf star about 100 light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado.