Hunting for exoplanets: past and future
The last decade of space exploration has exceeded even our wildest expectations. And this is only the beginning.
The last decade of space exploration has exceeded even our wildest expectations. And this is only the beginning.
The number of planets in the universe is extremely mind-boggling.
It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.
Space exploration made easy.
This could be a game changer.
Some stars go out with a bang -- a supernova explosion! Using optical images recorded by the now defunct Kepler ...
While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of ...
The ever resourceful Kepler missions just reported its most interesting find to date: not one, but five planets smaller than ...
Since it was first launched in 2009, the $600 Kepler mission has discovered more than 1,000 alien worlds. Arguably it's ...
Astronomers have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of a new exoplanet - a planet from outside our solar system ...
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Until just a few decades ago, there wasn't any proof that there were any planets beyond those ...
Artist impression of KOI-314c. Credit: C. Pulliam & D. Aguilar (CfA) A team of astronomers recently discovered a new exoplanet ...
Illustration of a exoplanet transiting its parent star in the observational plane. (C) scienceoffice.org Although the Kepler Space Telescope itself ...
Artist impression of Kepler-76b orbiting around its parent star. The planet was discovered after relativistic effects were observed. The star ...
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful ...
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
EPOXI mission image shows what an Earth-like exoplanet might look like from afar. (c) NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/GSFC The Kepler mission has proven ...
Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...
Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...
Kepler, a space telescope on a mission to find alien planets by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 ...
Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the ...
In our very own Milky Way galaxy alone, astronomers estimate there are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars. Of ...
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A remarkable discovery which turns once again turns fiction into reality, the Kepler spacecraft has found the first confirmed planet ...
Kepler 19c, an invisible world, was discovered solely through the gravitational influence it has on its companion world, Kepler 19b. ...
Yes, you've read that right. There are over 50 billion planets in our galaxy alone, according to the Kepler telescope, ...
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000 ...