We live on a planet in a solar system with seven other planets and have discovered thousands of exoplanets to date. But how planets like Earth form still remains a subject of great debate. Currently, there are two leading theories on planetary formation. Scientists continue to study planets ...
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“The problems arising when interpreting the data from WASP-39b are well known from many other exoplanets – regardless whether they are observed with Kepler,TESS, James Webb, or the future PLATO spacecraft,” explains MPS scientist Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz, first author of the new study. “As ...
Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study published in the journalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters. Aged at approximately 45 million years old, the star and its planet could provide valuable information on how plan...
the project lead for Exoplanet Watch, a citizen science project to observe exoplanets, planets outside of our own solar system, with small telescopes. He is also the Science Calibration lead for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument, which will directly image exoplanets. ...
and the sensitivity of the instrument. In fact, the majority of the exoplanets known to us today have been discovered with this transit method. A similar technique, called transit spectroscopy, might enable astronomers in the future to scan the atmospheres ofexoplanetsfor gaseous indicators of life...
With more than 4,000 exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp of finding out whether we are alone in the universe. Sadly though, we don't know much about these planets—in most cases just their mass and their radius...
With more than 4,000 exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our sun—discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp of finding out whether we are alone in the universe. Sadly though, we don't know much about these planets—in most cases just their mass and their radius...
The Cool Worlds Lab researches exoplanets that are cool enough to support life. Hence the name. But I knew immediately that I had to make a joke playing off the difference between cool-as-in-temperature and cool-as-in-hip-and-fashionable. ...
INTRODUCTIONMostofthe+300exoplanetsfoundtodatehavebeendiscoveredusingtheDopplertechnique,whichmeasuresthereflexmotionofthehoststarinducedbytheplan-ets(Mayor&Queloz1995;Marcy&Butler1996).Thediversecharacteristicsoftheseexoplanetsaresomewhatsurprising.ManyofthemaresimilarinmasstoJupiter,butorbitmuchclosertotheirhoststars...