Friday, March 31, 2023

Exoplanet

Almost 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time

Analyzing data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, scientists from MIT and elsewhere have found a trove of conceivable exoplanets in the...

Multiple metals and possible signs of water found in unique exoplanet

By using the OSIRIS instrument of the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), scientists at the University of Cambridge and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have...

Astronomers detected an exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds

An international team of astronomers, led by Dr. Nikolay Nikolov from the University of Exeter have detected an exoplanet atmosphere that is free of clouds....

Scientists detected Helium in exoplanet atmosphere

For the first ever time, an international team of led by Jessica Spake from the University of Exeter, have discovered evidence of the inert gas...

Ultrahigh-pressure laser experiments enlightens cores of super-Earth exoplanets

Researchers have identified more than 2,000 of these "super-Earths," exoplanets that are bigger than Earth, however, smaller than Neptune. By examining how iron and...

Computer identifies telescope data for evidence of distant planets

Debris disks around stars are good indicators of exoplanets.In the latest project by NASA,  volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks in...

Life beyond Earth: No plate tectonics, no problem

Researchers searching for life on removed planets are making arrangements to look non-Earth-like planets in view of disclosures inside our close planetary system that...

Scientists observed exoplanet atmosphere in more detail than ever before

An international team of scientists including the University of Exeter has used NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to analyze the atmosphere of the hot exoplanet...

Scientists discovered five tightly packed exoplanets

Five new planets have been found outside our nearby planetary group, all circling a sun-like star situated inside the heavenly body Aquarius, about 620...

Scientists Detect Comets Outside our Solar System

MIT scientists along with amateur astronomers have captured the dusty tails of six exocomets orbiting around a faint star 800 light years from Earth. These comets...

Scientists Produced Best Estimate of Earth’s Elemental Composition

The Solar System is emerged due to the collision between a molecular cloud of hydrogen gas and dust under its own gravity. Thus, it...

Neighboring Exoplanets may Hold Water

Seven Earth-sized exoplanets circle, the ultra cool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is just 40 light-years from our own blue planet. According to MIT scientists, these...

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