Tag: Exoplanets

The huge telescope plans to start its in-depth science investigation by exploring strange, new rocky worlds in unprecedented detail.

The term "exoplanets" is used to describe planets outside of the solar system.

Washington: Scientists applying artificial intelligence to data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have discovered an eighth planet around the star Kepler-90 — breaking the record for the star with the most exoplanets. The planet Kepler-90i, described at a briefing on Thursday and in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, demonstrates for the […]

UK/Germany: In a bid to find how alien observers might be able to detect Earth, scientists have found that at least nine exoplanets are ideally placed to observe the transits of our world. Scientists from Queen”s University Belfast in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany turned exoplanet-hunting on […]

Madrid: Two exoplanets that have been discovered, which are warm similar to Earth and may have water, could be good candidates to support life, according to a study on Tuesday. Scientists have been searching for planets close to nearby stars since 2016 using a 3.5-meter telescope. Images captured at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almeria, […]