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NASA's new exoplanet-hunting telescope has discovered its smallest planet yet: a world somewhere between the sizes of Earth and its smaller sister, Mars.
are a handful of large, online databases that aggregate the available exoplanet literature and render it digestible and navigable – an ever more complex task with the growing number and diversity of exoplanet discoveries. Three of the most up-to-date general catalogs are compared and contrasted,...
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the idea that an alien civilization could exist and be several billion years ahead of ours in technology is a sobering thought. Scientists are looking forward to making more discoveries with larger and more advanced telescopes, such as ESO's Very Large Telescope and the upcoming European Extremely...
NASA's forthcoming James Webb Space Telescope will be able to follow up on the atmospheres of planets like WASP-121b with higher sensitivity than any telescope currently in space. "This super-hot exoplanet is going to be a benchmark for our atmospheric models, and will be a great observatio...
exoplanetology. The exoplanets app has detailed information about thousands of extrasolar objects. You can even virtually explore our Milky Way galaxy, while staying up to date on the latest exoplanet discoveries, nearly in real time. Here’s a big thank you to the apps designers and for ...
(Image credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter) Major discoveries Thanks to Kepler, we now know how common it is for other stars to have planets. "Essentially every star has a planet. That's a big deal, and was not appreciated before Kepler," former Kepler project scientist Nick...
The first exoplanet candidate ever detected by NASA's late and lamented Kepler space telescope has finally been confirmed, 10 years after the iconic instrument's launch. The candidate, known as KOI (Kepler Object of Interest) 4.01, was originally pegged as a possible Neptune-size planet orbitin...
NASA shared an illustration representing exoplanet K2-18b (right) orbit around its dwarf star. NASA/ESA/CSA/Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Waters ...