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...
“It took a lot of trial and error, but we were really happy with our results after developing one of the most complicated planetary system models inexoplanetliterature to date,” Beard said. Reference: “The TESS-Keck Survey. XVII. Precise Mass Measurements in a Young, High-multiplicity Tra...
Space New Neptune-Sized Exoplanet Discovered With a Substantial Atmosphere Ripe for Study June 9, 2021 An international group of collaborators, including scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The University… 1 2 Next Facebook Twitter Pinterest YouTube Don't Miss a Discovery...
NASA has partnered with Google to harness Machine learning and discovered a new planet outside our solar system, The Kepler-90i.
A new study reveals an exciting, newly-discovered exoplanet could be covered with a 124-mile deep oceanEmma FierbergJessica Orwig
Previously, scientists have discovered gas giants that have water in their atmospheres, but this is the least giant planet ever to have water detected in its atmosphere. "The water detection was quite clear to us relatively early on," lead author Bjorn Benneke, a professor at the Institute f...
The W. M. Keck Exoplanet Tracker is a pre- cision Doppler radial velocity instrument for extrasolar planet detection based on a new technique, dispersed fixed-delay interferome- try (DFDI), which allows for multi-object sur- veying for the first time. Installed at the 2.5- m Sloan telesc...
The Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope Searching for New Worlds from a Backyard in the Suburbs 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...
The Perth Exoplanet Survey Telescope Searching for New Worlds from a Backyard in the Suburbs 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...
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 starl...