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The creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the Minute Earth podcast.

Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had,

but once you hear the answer, you'll want to share it with everyone you know.

Why do rivers curve?

Why did the T-Rex have such tiny arms?

And why do so many more kids need glasses now than they used to?

Spoiler alert, it isn't screen time.

Our team of scientists digs into the research

and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation, jam-packed with science facts and

terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth wherever you like to listen. Welcome to Cool Stuff Daily.

I'm Roger Rizzou. He's Marcus Paff. On today's episode, we're heading outside our solar system to look at another planet.

Marcus has more details.

Well, this story comes to us directly from the folks at NASA.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet

for an atmosphere on a rocky planet

outside our solar system, as NASA leads the world in exploring the universe from the moon to

Mars and beyond.

Observations of the ultra-hot Super Earth, T-O-I-561B, suggests the exoplanet is surrounded by a thick blanket of gases above a global magma

ocean. The results help explain the planet's unusually low density and challenge the prevailing

wisdom that relatively small planets so close to their stars are not able to sustain

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