Superflares on Sun-Like Stars Are Much More Common Than We Thought
Sun-like stars release massive quantities of radiation into space more often than previously believed.
Tag: Kepler telescope
NASA Scientists find 20 potentially habitable planets
Trick or treat? I'm dressed as a habitable planet.
Earth-sized planets all have relatively circular orbits, study finds
For decades, researchers have studied our planet's orbit with growing interest: is there something special about the way the Earth ...
NASA reports the first Earth-sized Exoplanet in the Habitable Zone
Artist's rendition of Kepler-186f - just 10% larger than Earth. Remember a few days ago, when I was telling you ...
New, more precise method to measure exoplanet mass
In the past two decades alone, some 900 exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - have been identified, with ...
1 in 5 stars may have Earth-sized planets
A statistical analysis of observations based on the Kepler telescope indicates that 20 percent of all stars in the Milky ...
Planet that shouldn’t exist baffles scientists
It's a big, bad, lava world - and according to what we know about astronomy, it simply shouldn't exist. Artistic ...
Kepler finds first known tilted solar system
Observations from NASA's Kepler spacecraft have for the first time uncovered a 'tilted' solar system, with two planets orbiting a ...
First cloud map of an extrasolar planet
Astronomers have created the first cloud map of a planet outside our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as ...
Stars don’t consume their planets – usually
Stars have a pull on all planets, but they exhibit a special kind of attraction towards a class of planets ...
Most promising Earth-like planets found by Kepler
An artist's impression of a sunrise on Kepler 62f. (c) American Association for the Advancement of Science The ever resourceful ...
Earth-like planets closer than previously thought. Nearest one might lie 13 light-years away
After researchers surveyed data from the Kepler mission tasked with identifying possibly habitable planets outside our solar system they found ...
Kepler telescope – Earth size planets number ’17 billion’
Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...
New super-Earth exoplanet is a mere 46 light-years away
Astronomers have used a novel planet hunter instrument to detect a new possible life supporting, Earth-like exoplanet. In fact the ...
New ESA planet-hunter space telescope slated for 2017
The European Space Agency has officially announced that it will launch a new space telescope tasked with the primary objective ...
Newly discovered solar system is very similar to our own
Artist impression of the Kepler-30 solar system, complete with its planets' orbits. (c) Cristina Sanchis Ojeda Researchers at MIT, the ...
Two newly discovered alien planets form closest known pair in the Universe
Kepler, a space telescope on a mission to find alien planets by measuring dips in the brightness of more than 150,000 ...
Superflares 10,000 times more powerful than those in our solar system, observed on sun-like stars
Some stars, most often during their early life, exhibit an intense and energetic behavior, much greater than that of our ...
Turns out, another solar system has more planets than ours
Our solar system is special for two reasons: the first one, obviously - is us. Our solar system is the ...
SETI to check recently discovered Kepler science
There's been a lot of buzz around the planets discovered by the Kepler telescope, particularly about Kepler-22b - the planet ...
Newest found planet is just the right temperature for life
The race for finding habitable planets outside our solar system is definitely heating up. After we told you about Gliese, ...
Kepler star trio is a mystery to astroseismologists
It's not that uncommon for two stars to dance, but when three of them get together, and dance without singing, ...
The Kepler mission: searching for planets in the Goldilocks area
The Goldilocks area is one of the most interesting for astronomers throughout the known Universe, as it has great hope ...
140 Earth-like planets discovered in the Milky Way by Kepler
An artists rendering of what our galaxy might look as viewed from outside our Galaxy. Our sun is about 25,000 ...
