04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
...as a planet passes in front of its host star (the transit method) – which themselves are only small pinpricks of light when viewed... its predicted location. This shift in the planet’s predicted transit was also picked up by Hubble, adding more weight ...
22 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
... stars to detect the tiny reductions in brightness caused by planets passing in front of them. As a result of this so-called transit method, it detected more than 5000 planetary candidates. Then, in 2013 when a second reaction wheel failed, a novel...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
... research. I worked on several extra-curricular projects at the University of London observatory, where we were using the so-called transit method to identify extra-solar planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System. The goal for many scientists...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... radial velocity signal analysis", he noted. "At the same time, a significantly large number of radial velocity observations, transit method studies, as well as direct imaging are still needed to confirm the presence of possible new planets in the...
