March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... most science fiction that deals with the topic of multi-planet civilizations. The Star Trek franchise essentially sprung from the...warming is real, they are no less important to a multi-planet storyline. In Joss Whedon’s Firefly space western series, ...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... they have yet to be confirmed as real, but the authors are confident that based on data from the multi-planet systems, most if not all of the candidates will be actual exoplanets once follow up investigations are complete. One...
18 May 2016
Multi-planet system hints at extra planet in its cometary belt
... with ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows the location of the known planets in this system in relation to a graphical representation of the central ...the planets in the system are larger than Jupiter. "This is the very first time that a multi-planet ...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...in the processed data. During their search, the team identified 747 unique planet candidates and 57 multi-planet systems. Of these candidates, 366 have not been previously identified, they say. “Discovering hundreds of new exoplanets is a ...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
.... It also begged the question, if we could find one system like this, could we find anymore? Finding large multi-planet systems is rather difficult. It requires stable, high-precision Doppler (radial-velocity) monitoring and telescopes that are...
19 May 2017
Exoplanets galore and possibly the next Trappist-1 system?
... teams using the same instrument have found 20 super-Earth to Neptune-mass planets in one search, while the other team confirms a fourth planet in a multi-planet system, with hints that there might be more. The instrument in question is the...
