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Tag: Exoplanets

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NASA’s Newest Planet Hunting Satellite TESS Spots First Confirmed Exoplanets

Three months into its observations and TESS was already finding confirmed exoplanets. Another 280+ potential exoplanets are getting follow-up observations from telescopes back ...
By Alex ChaversJanuary 8, 20190
Sci + Tech

NASA’s TESS Hunt for Exoplanets Notches First Candidates

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) officially began scouring the sky for exoplanets last month. Today, astronomers announce the first of what is ...
By Alex ChaversSeptember 20, 20180
Sci + Tech

A Fresh Batch of Exoplanets Were Just Confirmed Orbiting Cool Red Dwarf Stars

NASA’s Kepler along with a pair of telescopes on Earth confirmed 15 new exoplanets recently. All of them orbiting red dwarf stars. One ...
By Alex ChaversMarch 12, 20180
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Kepler’s Final Tally Of Planets After Staring At 160,000 Stars Is In

For Kepler’s first four years, it stared at a patch of sky in the Cygnus constellation. As it trailed behind Earth’s on its ...
By Alex ChaversJune 19, 20170
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Search for Alien Life Heats Up With Three Exoplanets Around Cool Star

40 light years from Earth sits an ultracool dwarf star formerly known as 2MASS J23062928-0502285. Today, it’s called TRAPPIST-1 after the telescope used ...
By Alex ChaversMay 3, 20160
Sci + Tech

How Do You Find a Planet With No Home?

Update: NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has entered emergency mode. The mission team has declared a spacecraft emergency giving them priority access to NASA’s Deep ...
By Alex ChaversApril 8, 20160
Sci + Tech

Kepler Animation Shows Just How Fast Most Exoplanets Orbit Their Star

The first phase of the Kepler mission discovered thousands of potential exoplanets. 1,031 of these were confirmed while the other 4,696 are listed ...
By Alex ChaversDecember 2, 20150
Sci + Tech

What is a Planet?

Seems like an easy question, right? It was, until the 1990s. Before the 1990s, a planet was defined as any large body orbiting ...
By Alex ChaversNovember 11, 20150
Sci + Tech

NASA’s Kepler Mission and Its ‘Second Light’

NASA’s Kepler mission is back in the spotlight with Kepler-452b, a near-Earth-size planet discovered in the “habitable zone” around a star much like ...
By Alex ChaversJuly 27, 20150

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