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An ancient super-Earth offers an unexpected clue that life in our galaxy could be older than scientists thoughtJanuary 13, 2021 at 5:59 PM Tags: Space, Science, News, Trends, Nasa, Earth, Harvard, Hawaii, Aliens, Mars, James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Exoplanet, Milky Way Galaxy, Extraterrestrial Life, Telescopes 142 people like this. Like Hubble spots distant exoplanet that could be equivalent to Planet NineDecember 12, 2020 at 9:35 AM Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found an interesting exoplanet equivalent to the hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Hubble, Exoplanet, Planet Nine, Breaking Twitter 38 people like this. Like Rain of rocks falls on this planet with a temperature of 3,000°CNovember 7, 2020 at 9:18 AM It's been a hellish week here on Earth, but it could be worse -- we could be on K2-141b, a lava planet with some of the most extreme weather ever discovered.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Earth, Exoplanet, Breaking Twitter 34 people like this. Like This planet survived the death of its star — and we don’t know howSeptember 18, 2020 at 10:03 AM This week researchers have uncovered a new astronomical oddity: a planet several times the size of the dead star it orbits.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Nasa, Exoplanet, White Dwarf, Breaking Twitter 17 people like this. Like Astronomers spot an Earth-like planet orbiting a sun-like starJune 7, 2020 at 12:08 PM The planet could even host liquid water on its surfaceTags: Space, News, Trends, Exoplanet, Kepler-160 42 people like this. Like Tiny briefcase-sized satellite spots an exoplanet and sets a new recordJune 6, 2020 at 11:25 AM The ASTERIA satellite wasn't originally intended to perform scienceTags: Space, News, Trends, Nasa, Satellite, Exoplanet, CubeSat 34 people like this. Like New Earth-size planet discovered 300 light-years away could support lifeApril 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM Kepler-1649c is the closest match to Earth NASA has found yetTags: News, Trends, Nasa, Earth, Kepler, Exoplanet, Habitable Exoplanets 2 people like this. Like New Earth-sized planet discovered 300 light-years away could support lifeApril 15, 2020 at 3:59 PM Kepler-1649c is the closest match to Earth that NASA has found yetTags: News, Trends, Nasa, Earth, Kepler, Exoplanet, Habitable Exoplanets 37 people like this. Like ESO astronomers observe exoplanet where it rains molten ironMarch 18, 2020 at 1:21 PM  Tags: Space, Climate, Nasa, Earth, Discovery, Chile, Innovation, Switzerland, Universe, Planets, Exoplanet, Atacama Desert, Eso, Telescopes, University of Geneva, Cosmos 76 people like this. Like This hellish planet is so hot that iron rains from the skyMarch 14, 2020 at 10:26 AM Surface temperatures over 2400 degrees Celsius do wild things to metalTags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Eso, Space News, Very Large Telescope 22 people like this. Like Astronomers find potentially habitable exoplanet twice the size of EarthFebruary 29, 2020 at 11:15 AM The planet K2-18b is located 124 light-years awayTags: News, Trends, Earth, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Space News, Habitable Exoplanets, K2-18b 3 people like this. Like This planet is so hot it tears apart the hydrogen molecules in its atmosphereJanuary 25, 2020 at 3:00 PM At 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, planet KELT-9b is so hot that it shreds moleculesTags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Space News, KELT, hot Jupiter, KELT-9b 8 people like this. Like Exoplanet discoveries include two super-Earths that could support lifeJanuary 15, 2020 at 2:11 PM GJ180 d and GJ229A c are “super-Earths” located 19 and 39 light-years from EarthTags: Space, News, Trends, Nasa, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Super-earths 23 people like this. Like NASA’s planet hunting satellite found another potentially habitable earth-sized planetJanuary 6, 2020 at 9:04 PM  Tags: Energy, Startups, TC, Astronomy, California, Washington, Virginia, Massachusetts, Nasa, Earth, Mit, Harvard, Sun, Cambridge, Silicon Valley, University Of Chicago 51 people like this. Like Europe’s space agency just launched a satellite to study planets outside our solar systemDecember 18, 2019 at 8:09 AM The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a satellite early this morning, aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that took off from the Guiana Space Center in French Guyana. Atop the Soyuz is the so-called “Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite” (CHEOPS for short) that will deploy to orbit around Earth, where it’ll have a better view of nearby stars that we’ve previously determined have planets in their own respective orbits.
CHEOPS will specifically be looking to spot the ‘exoplanets’ (planets that are outs...Tags: TC, Europe, Astronomy, Space, Tech, Earth, Satellite, European Space Agency, Rocket, Mars, Aerospace, Soyuz, Exoplanet, Neptune, Guyana, Antarctic 50 people like this. Like Rare super-Neptune exoplanet spotted in nearby binary systemNovember 3, 2019 at 10:00 AM Astronomers have discovered a rare type of exoplanet called a super-Neptune, larger than Neptune and around five to seven times the size of Earth.Tags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Space News, Doppler spectroscopy, Radial Velocity, super-Neptune 7 people like this. Like Rocky exoplanets are more like Earth inside than we thoughtOctober 20, 2019 at 2:00 PM New research shows that rocky exoplanets in orbit around ancient, wizened stars called white dwarfs can have interiors that are surprisingly similar to our planet.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Stars, Sun, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, White Dwarf 25 people like this. Like Planet-hunting satellite discovers its first Earth-sized planetApril 20, 2019 at 11:23 AM NASA's planet hunting satellite, TESS, has made a new discovery. Last month the satellite discovered its first exoplanet. And now it has achieved another milestone, locating its first Earth-sized planet and a larger sibling planet.
The post Planet-hunting satellite discovers its first Earth-sized planet appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Nasa, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Tess, Earth-sized planets, HD 21749 10 people like this. Like Our nearest exoplanet, Proxima b, could have a large and chilly neighborApril 14, 2019 at 1:20 PM Our nearest exoplanet discovered so far is Proxima b, which orbits the star Proxima Centauri located 4.2 light-years from Earth. Now new evidence suggests that Proxima b might have a neighbor, Proxima c.
The post Our nearest exoplanet, Proxima b, could have a large and chilly neighbor appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Proxima, Emerging Tech, Proxima Centauri, Proxima B, High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, Proxima C 33 people like this. Like NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS locates its first exoplanetMarch 31, 2019 at 10:12 AM NASA's planet-hunting satellite, TESS, was launched last year to search for exoplanets. And the search is already paying off, as astronomers announce they have discovered a Saturn-sized planet.
The post NASA’s planet-hunting satellite TESS locates its first exoplanet appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Nasa, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Tess, hot Saturn 30 people like this. Like Stormy, blistering hot, and full of carbon monoxide: an unfriendly exoplanetMarch 30, 2019 at 2:27 PM The GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed its first exoplanet, HR8799e, using a technique called optical interferometry.
The post Stormy, blistering hot, and full of carbon monoxide: an unfriendly exoplanet appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Eso, Very Large Telescope 42 people like this. Like Unfriendly exoplanet is stormy, blistering hot, and full of carbon monoxideMarch 30, 2019 at 2:27 PM The GRAVITY instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has observed its first exoplanet, HR8799e, using a technique called optical interferometry.
The post Unfriendly exoplanet is stormy, blistering hot, and full of carbon monoxide appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Eso, Very Large Telescope 20 people like this. Like NASA releases the “last light” image taken by Kepler before it retired last yearFebruary 7, 2019 at 10:59 PM  Tags: TC, Astronomy, Space, Tech, Nasa, Earth, Hawkes, Kepler, Exoplanet, Tess, Johannes Kepler, NASA Ames Research Center, Alison Hawkes 97 people like this. Like A quarter century into the exoplanet revolutionSeptember 25, 2018 at 5:30 AM  Tags: Books, Astronomy, Space, Featured, Nasa, Earth, World, Stars, Moon, Satellite, Aliens, Alien Life, Milky Way, Mars, Astronaut, Saturn 138 people like this. Like NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite: What you need to knowJuly 27, 2018 at 1:40 PM NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will seek out new exoplanets close to Earth — and possibly extraterrestrial life. Here's everything you need to know about the satellite.
The post NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite: What you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Nasa, Earth, Extraterrestrial, Kepler, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Tess 41 people like this. Like Astronomers make huge exoplanet discovery haul in record timeJune 22, 2018 at 5:03 PM An international group of scientists reported that dozens of planetary candidates have been identified by measuring light fluctuations using K2, the mission that followed up NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
The post Astronomers make huge exoplanet discovery haul in record time appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: Space, News, Trends, Nasa, Mit, Discovery, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech 4 people like this. Like Take a VR journey to an exoplanet with NASA’s new ‘Travel Bureau’June 2, 2018 at 3:34 PM Humans won't visit alien planets beyond our solar system for many decades, but NASA has provided the next best thing -- an interactive VR visualization of what you might see if you were standing on the surface of a faraway world.
The post Take a VR journey to an exoplanet with NASA’s new ‘Travel Bureau’ appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Nasa, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Jpl, Tess, Travel Bureau 48 people like this. Like NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite: What you need to knowMay 20, 2018 at 8:01 AM NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will seek out new exoplanets close to Earth — and possibly extraterrestrial life. Here's everything you need to know about the satellite.
The post NASA’s planet-hunting TESS satellite: What you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: Trends, Nasa, Earth, Extraterrestrial, Kepler, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Tess 12 people like this. Like NASA’s planet-hunting satellite sends back its first image — and it’s amazingMay 19, 2018 at 2:04 PM A routine calibration test on NASA's exoplanet mission has produced a stunning image, capturing more than 200,000 stars in the southern sky. Future images will provide even more details as we search for signs of alien life.
The post NASA’s planet-hunting satellite sends back its first image — and it’s amazing appeared first on Digital Trends.Tags: News, Trends, Nasa, Mit, Exoplanet, Emerging Tech, Tess 40 people like this. Like |
