A Breakthrough in Exoplanet Research The researchers devised a new ‘habitability signature’ with which they can identify whether a planet does indeed have liquid water. Before this, the closest scientists had come to identifying liquid on a planetary surface was to use its glint, how starli...
A new study reveals an exciting, newly-discovered exoplanet could be covered with a 124-mile deep oceanEmma FierbergJessica Orwig
NASA has partnered with Google to harness Machine learning and discovered a new planet outside our solar system, The Kepler-90i.
Our home galaxy contains a hundred billion stars. We now know that on average each star hosts at least one planet. More than 4000 of these exoplanets have now been discovered. The PEST Observatory: Image Credit: TG Tan This website is the story of a little telescope in a suburban backyard...
NASA recently announced a new planet. It was discovered by 17-year-old Wolf Cukier during his summer internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Maryland. Wolf monitored data collected from TESS, a NASA satellite.TESSstands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Its mission is to...
On April 18,NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, celebrated five years in space. In that time, TESS has mapped more than 93% of the entire sky, discovered 329 new planets, and provided new insights into an array of cosmic phenomena, from stellar pulsations and exploding...
Using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun called TOI 451. The system resides in the recently discovered Pisces-...
B A new study focuses on K2-18b, an exoplanet(系外行星) like the Earth discovered in 2015, orbiting a red dwarf star(矮星) close enough to receive about the same amount of radiation from its star as the Earth does from the sun."Studies have suggested that planets with hydrogen-rich at...
【题目】C A new study focuses on K2-18b, an exoplanet (外行星) discovered in2015, finding it orbits a red dwarf star close enough to receive about the same amount of radiation from the star as the Earth does from the Sun.Previously, scientists have discovered gas giants that have water...
Planet formation is a complex and tumultuous process that remains shrouded in mystery. Astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets—planets orbiting stars other than our Sun—however, nearly all are middle-aged, with ages of a billion years or more. For astronomers, attempting to unders...