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November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... stars began to be replaced with real, definite data. Twenty-three years later, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands in excess of 3,700. The possibility of finding a truly Earth-like planet is now, ... surface. Located at 4.2 light years (40,000 billion km), Proxima Centauri b is almost an ideal destination - as far as exoplanets go. But while this distance may be small by astronomical standards, it remains utterly vast on the human scale. The...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
...24hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year looking for the tell-tale sign of a would be exoplanet. The technique Kepler uses is known as the transit method and it works by measuring the dip in star light as a planet passes... has been imperative to find a quicker solution and narrow down the search for true exoplanet signals. Batalha explains that Kepler achieves this by using statistics to sample the Galaxy to help understand how many planets ...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...their host stars in 13 days or less; these are considered short orbital period exoplanets. Conversely, Kepler was adept at finding exoplanets with orbital periods from 10 days up to a few hundred days, a .... Until we measure its density, we cannot be really sure that it is rocky,” says Dragomir. “If confirmed however, this Earth-sized exoplanet will be interesting to study further to determine whether it formed the way it is now, or whether it...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
...not the only one making substantial discoveries. Although now officially retired, NASA’s first formidable exoplanet telescope – Kepler – has gone one better. Make that a few hundred better. By scanning through... title – K2 – and 15 months after being reassigned to its new stellar target, Kepler had racked up its 1,000th confirmed exoplanet discovery. Kepler’s K2 mission comprised of 19 ‘campaigns,’ lasting around 80 days each. These new discoveries...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... or star in systems with more than one host star. The combination of the WFIRST exoplanet microlensing survey and Kepler’s transit survey will provide a complete statistical census of planets at all separations. This is...demonstrated by Sir Arthur Eddington in the famous 1919 solar eclipse expedition that provided the first observational confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity. The alignment needed to see this gravitational lensing effect by a...
25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
..., NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been busy searching the skies for exoplanets in orbit around the brightest dwarf stars. To date, the planet hunter has found 98 confirmed exoplanets and 2453 candidates waiting... to be verified. Exoplanet candidates which appear the most promising are put into the TESS Objects ...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... worlds, detections of rocky worlds around Sun-like stars is comparatively rare, due to the techniques used to find exoplanets. But by improving on an old detection method, a team of German and US scientists have now found a ... is not new. It was discovered around ten years ago, followed by the confirmation of two exoplanets, called Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c, four years later. Both of these planets though are substantially bigger than Earth ...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
... around smaller, dimmer red dwarf stars instead. Dubbed K2, this “Second Light" mission lasted as long as Kepler’s first exoplanet hunt and bumped its count of surveyed stars up to more than 500,000. But, after nine years... colleagues. A fifth could be hiding too but data limitations have meant that the team were unable to confirm its existence. Other notable new discoveries include EPIC 249731291, an early-type F dwarf (or sub-giant) system...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... have found the first compelling evidence for a Neptune-sized moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet. Detections of exoplanets come thick and fast nowadays as a multitude of telescopes both on the ground or in orbit, are...faster and I just kept looking at that signature,” Although further observations by Hubble are needed to fully confirm the existence of Kepler-1625b-i, as such gargantuan moons are unknown in our own Solar System, if it turns out to...
