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A Ride to Exoplanets

Finding Potentially Habitable Worlds

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Cosmos has always sparked human curiosity to unveil and speculate its fascinating secrets. This curiosity has ultimately opened a window to other worlds. After years of observation, computation, and data analysis, scientists have revealed the diversity in exoplanets that have been helpful in the characterization and further investigation of biosignatures and technosignatures. This article presents some of the scientific advances made in extraterrestrial planetary science that guarantees to search through the thick clouds of the mysterious planets in the near future.

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    Simran Kaur & Varinderjit Kaur

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Simran Kaur is a final year undergraduate student pursuing major in physics at G.S.S.D.G.S. Khalsa College Patiala. Her interests are Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Varinderjit Kaur works at G.S.S.D.G.S. Khalsa College Patiala. She is interested in diverse problems in Physics and her research area is theoretical Nuclear Physics.

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Kaur, S., Kaur, V. A Ride to Exoplanets. Reson 26, 537–550 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-021-1154-8

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