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Sadly both of these exoplanets are too far away for the James Webb telescope to investigate. While we didn't find any exoplanets nearby in both the habitable and abiogenesis zones, we are discovering such worlds at breathtaking speed – with several thousands discovered already. So it may not ...
Sixty of those exoplanets were discovered with NASA's Kepler Space Telescope during its K2 mission, four of them were spotted by NASA'sTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite(TESS), and the last was confirmed using the European Space Agency'sCHaracterisin...
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Hunting for Mini-Moons: Exomoons Could Have Satellites of Their Own Magnetic Fields of 'Hot Jupiter' Exoplanets Are Much Stronger Than We Thought You can listen to the Ask A Spaceman podcast on iTunes and on the Web at http://www.askaspaceman.com. Ask your own question on Twitter using...
A strange alien world with three suns in its sky has just been discovered, but it didn't break any records. There are a handful of other known exoplanets with three host stars, and quite a few out there with two suns. (This latter group is sometimes nicknamed "Tatooine" planets, after...
Great skill was used, much data were achieved, but to no real point. Of course when he did the survey it was not clear what amplitude transiting exoplanets would show. I'm still not sure if an amateur has telescopically discovered an transiting exoplanet yet, I know they can detect them...
Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known, according to a study published in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Aged at approximately 45 million years old, the star and its plane
No star’s exoplanets have yet been proven to support life – the Sun is the only star so far to host life. There is only one solar system. The answer to question 4 is truly a trick question: “No other stars have a solar system… becauseonly one star is named “Sol”… the Sun...
55 Cancri e is classified as a super-Earth, but it’s far from Earth-like. (Many exoplanets are interesting because of potential habitability but don’t even mention habitability in this case.) It orbits so closely to the star that its surface is molten and reaches a temperature ...