exoplanet

Exoplanet discovery blurs the line between large planets and small stars 0
- BUSINESS
- September 27, 2019
The discovery of yet another exoplanet is no longer news. More than 4,000 planets around other stars have now been found since the detection of the first one in 1995. As astronomers long suspected, or at least hoped, it seems that planets are ubiquitous in stellar systems and there are probably more planets than stars
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How we detected water on a potentially habitable exoplanet for the first time 0
- BUSINESS
- September 12, 2019
With more than 4,000 exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than our sun – discovered so far, it may seem like we are on the cusp of finding out whether we are alone in the universe. Sadly though, we don’t know much about these planets – in most cases just their mass and their radius.
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NASA’s TESS probe discovers an exoplanet about three times the size of the Earth 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 10, 2019
Artistic illustration of TESS spacecraft observing the exoplanet. Image: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre NASA’s planet hunting probe TESS has discovered a third exoplanet outside our Solar System. Dubbed HD 21749b, it is described as a “sub-Neptune” exoplanet but is about three times the size of the Earth. According to Scientists, HD 21749b orbits a dwarf star which
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