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High School Senior Uncovers Potential for Hundreds of Earth-Like Planets in Kepler Data

Apr 01, 2019 (SPX)

Kepler, whose mission ended in 2018, discovered over 2,600 confirmed exoplanets, with thousands more candidate planets still being considered. But are there mor...

Exoplanet satellite ready

Mar 30, 2019 (ESA)

Cheops will lift off as a secondary passenger on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket launching from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellite will be stored ...

Gravity instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

This result was announced in a letter in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics by the GRAVITY Collaboration [1], in which they present observations of the exop...

Exoplanet Under the Looking Glass

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

Investigating exoplanets in detail and without confounding noise is difficult. In general, with increasing distance, it becomes more and more difficult to image...

Data flows from NASA's TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

Mar 28, 2019 (SPX)

In fact, asteroseismologists - stellar astronomers who study seismic waves (or "starquakes") in stars that appear as changes in brightness - often provide criti...

In Hunt for Life, Astronomers Identify Most Promising Stars

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

TESS will observe 400,000 stars across the whole sky to catch a glimpse of a planet transiting across the face of its star, one of the primary methods by which ...

Astronomers Discover Two New Planets Using Artificial Intelligence

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The planets discovered this time were from Kepler's extended mission, called K2. To find them, the team, led by an undergraduate at UT Austin, Anne Dattilo, cre...

Icy giant planets in the laboratory

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

Unexpectedly, one of these plastics kept its crystalline structure even at the most extreme pressures reached. Since the icy giant interiors are made up of the ...

Astrobiology seminar aims to inspire a look into the bounds of life

Mar 22, 2019 (SPX)

With like-minded researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vincent helped form a new campus group by the name of OoLALA - Origins of Life, Artificial ...

Carbon monoxide detectors could warn of extraterrestrial life

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a UC Riverside-led research team is arguing the opposite: celestial carbon monoxide detectors may actually alert us to a distant world teeming with simple ...

Cooking Up Alien Atmospheres on Earth

Mar 15, 2019 (JPL)

Hot Jupiters are gas giants that orbit very close to their parent star, unlike any of the planets in our solar system. While Earth takes 365 days to orbit the S...

Neural Networks Predict Planet Mass

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Planets grow in stellar disks accreting solid material and gas. Whether they become bodies like Earth or Jupiter depends on different factors like the propertie...

ALMA observes the formation sites of solar-system-like planets

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

The solar system is thought to have formed from a cloud of cosmic gas and dust 4.6 billion years ago. By studying young planetary systems forming around other s...

New surprises from Jupiter and Saturn

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The detailed magnetic and gravity data have been "invaluable but also confounding," said David Stevenson from Caltech, who will present an update of both missio...

UK to tackle danger of solar wind and find new Earth-like planets

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission will study how the solar wind interacts with the Earth's magnetosphere, which can impact o...

SETI Institute: Agreement with Unistellar to Develop Citizen Science Network

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Thanks to its unique light-accumulation technology, the Unistellar eVscope is one hundred times more powerful than standard telescopes. This allows it to take p...

Goldilocks Stars May Be Just Right for Finding Habitable Worlds

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

A new study finds a particular class of stars called K stars, which are dimmer than the Sun but brighter than the faintest stars, may be particularly promising ...

Chances for Life Expand When Binary Stars Push Together

Mar 08, 2019 (SPX)

Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early history. The young worlds orbit suns in stellar nurseries, clusters of stars where violent encounters...

K stars more likely to host habitable exoplanets

Mar 08, 2019 (UPI)

If life is to be found outside planet Earth, the new research suggests K stars are where astronomers should look. K stars are orangish stars that register a bit...

Kepler's First Exoplanet Candidate Confirmed, 10 Years After Launch

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Launched almost exactly 10 years ago, the Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of exoplanets using the transit method - small dips in a star's bright...