Artificial intelligence finds solar system with 8 planets like ours
7 years, 3 months ago

Artificial intelligence finds solar system with 8 planets like ours

Live Mint  

Miami: A solar system with as many planets as our own has been discovered with the help of NASA’s Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence, the US space agency said. “Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star,” NASA said in a statement on Thursday. “The Kepler-90 star system is like a mini version of our solar system,” said Andrew Vanderburg, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin. “Instead scientists selected the strongest signals, which are the most likely to be actual planets, to receive the most attention.” Shallue likened this process to “looking for a needle in a haystack.” “Machine learning really shines when there is too much data for humans to examine for themselves.” More planets are expected to be found, because researchers plan to apply their neural network to Kepler’s full set of more than 150,000 stars.

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Nasa creates history with discovery of 6 new planets outside Solar System
8 months, 1 week ago

Nasa creates history with discovery of 6 new planets outside Solar System

India Today  

Nasa has announced the discovery of six new worlds, pushing the total number of confirmed planets beyond our solar system to 5,502. FINDING SIX NEW PLANETS The newly discovered exoplanets showcase a diverse range of characteristics. These discoveries employed various detection methods, including the radial velocity technique, which measures stellar wobble caused by orbiting planets, and the transit method, which …

NASA discovers 85 Earth-like planets that could support life
1 year, 2 months ago

NASA discovers 85 Earth-like planets that could support life

Daily Mail  

Scientists have revealed a promising development in the search for alien life. Generally, if a planet is a similar distance from its star as Earth from the sun, scientists could reasonably suggest it's not too hot and not too cold – and therefore could be habitable. The scientists know this because the planets orbited their star just twice during a …

Astronomers find seven planets being 'fried' by their star
1 year, 4 months ago

Astronomers find seven planets being 'fried' by their star

The Hindu  

In our solar system, little rocky Mercury is the planet orbiting closest to the sun, perpetually fried by solar radiation seven times more intense than what we experience on Earth. Astronomers using data obtained by NASA's now-retired Kepler space telescope have identified seven planets orbiting a star in our Milky Way galaxy, with all of them suffering the wrath of …

This is how 5,000 planets discovered beyond our solar system sound | Listen and watch in 3D
3 years ago

This is how 5,000 planets discovered beyond our solar system sound | Listen and watch in 3D

India Today  

The universe is filled with billions of worlds, and Nasa has begun scrapping the surface as it discovered 5000 exoplanets hiding in plain sight in deep space. The American space agency has discovered 65 new planets beyond our solar system to take the total number of planets discovered in the last three decades to over 5000. Nasa has said that …

Algorithm finds 50 hidden planets missed by human scientists
4 years, 7 months ago

Algorithm finds 50 hidden planets missed by human scientists

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An artificial intelligence algorithm has discovered 50 new potential planets that were missed …

AI Has Identified 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data in the Last Week
4 years, 7 months ago

AI Has Identified 50 New Planets From Old NASA Data in the Last Week

News 18  

British researchers have identified 50 new planets using artificial intelligence, marking a technological breakthrough in astronomy. Astronomers and computer scientists from the University of Warwick built a machine learning algorithm to dig through old NASA data containing thousands of potential planet candidates. Once the algorithm learned to accurately separate real planets from false positives, it was used to analyze old …

First ever picture of a multiplanetary system like our own released
4 years, 8 months ago

First ever picture of a multiplanetary system like our own released

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have released the first ever picture of a solar system like our …

Stunning video maps out all of the 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA
5 years, 8 months ago

Stunning video maps out all of the 4,000 exoplanets discovered by NASA

Daily Mail  

The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Kepler-452b, dubbed 'Earth 2.0', shares many characteristics with our planet despite sitting 1,400 light years away. 2) The first planet found to orbit two stars Kepler found a planet …

More than 100 new exoplanets found as scientists hunt for 'second Earth'
7 years, 1 month ago

More than 100 new exoplanets found as scientists hunt for 'second Earth'

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Scientists have found almost 100 new planets outside our solar system. The worlds …

Yet another solar system with 8 planets discovered by NASA's AI
7 years, 3 months ago

Yet another solar system with 8 planets discovered by NASA's AI

India Today  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Thursday, December 14, announced that "our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light years from Earth." Our @NASAKepler mission's search for new planets teamed with machine learning to discover another solar …

KEPLER'S TOP FIVE FINDS
7 years, 3 months ago

KEPLER'S TOP FIVE FINDS

Daily Mail  

Launched in 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system. Kepler-452b, dubbed 'Earth 2.0', shares many characteristics with our planet despite sitting 1,400 light years away. The object shares many characteristics with our planet despite sitting 1,400 light years away. 2) The first planet found to orbit two stars Kepler found a …

Eight planets found orbiting distant star, NASA says
7 years, 3 months ago

Eight planets found orbiting distant star, NASA says

CNN  

Story highlights For the first time, eight planets have been found orbiting Kepler-90 It is tied with our solar system for a star hosting the most known planets CNN — For the first time, eight planets have been found orbiting a distant star, Kepler-90, 2,545 light-years from Earth in the Draco constellation, NASA announced Thursday. But Google Artificial Intelligence – …

Google's AI helps NASA make latest discovery through Kepler space telescope
7 years, 3 months ago

Google's AI helps NASA make latest discovery through Kepler space telescope

India TV News  

Google's latest artifical intelligence has helped US space agency NASA make its latest discovery using its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. NASA's Kepler space telescope has gazed at more than 150,000 stars and continues to transmit back data that leads to important discoveries of celestial objects in our galaxy, including first-time observations of planets outside our solar system. Thanks to Kepler's …

NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets — and 10 may be like Earth
7 years, 4 months ago

NASA has discovered hundreds of potential new planets — and 10 may be like Earth

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar …

NASA's Kepler telescope used to identify 20 new potentially habitable exoplanets
7 years, 4 months ago

NASA's Kepler telescope used to identify 20 new potentially habitable exoplanets

Firstpost  

Scientists, using data from NASA’s Kepler telescope, have discovered 20 new potentially habitable exoplanets that may host alien life. Some take a relatively long time to complete a single orbit, with the longest taking 395 Earth days. The exoplanet with a 395-day year is one of the most promising worlds for life on the list, said Jeff Coughlin, part of …

NASA's Kepler discovers 10 new Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets
7 years, 9 months ago

NASA's Kepler discovers 10 new Earth-sized, potentially habitable planets

ABC  

NASA's planet-hunting telescope has found 10 new planets outside our solar system that are likely the right size and temperature to potentially have life on them. "It implies that Earth-size planets in the habitable zone around sun-like stars are not rare," said Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who was not part of the work. It is too early to know how …

Kepler analysis finds 219 additional exoplanet candidates, including 10 similar to Earth
7 years, 9 months ago

Kepler analysis finds 219 additional exoplanet candidates, including 10 similar to Earth

LA Times  

Are we alone in the universe? On Monday, mission scientists said the most sophisticated and comprehensive analysis of Kepler data yet added 219 exoplanet candidates to the list of thousands already discovered by the telescope. “It’s an important question for us, ‘Are we alone?’” said Mario Perez, Kepler program scientist in the astrophysics division at NASA. In this most recent …

7 Earth-size worlds found orbiting star, could hold life[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn
8 years, 1 month ago

7 Earth-size worlds found orbiting star, could hold life[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily  

An artist's depiction shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1f, on one of seven newly discovered planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that scientists using the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground based telescopes have discovered according to NASA, in this illustration released February 22, 2017. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For the first time, astronomers have discovered seven Earth-size planets orbiting a single …

Astronomers Find 7 Earth-Size Planets Around A Nearby Star
8 years, 1 month ago

Astronomers Find 7 Earth-Size Planets Around A Nearby Star

NPR  

Astronomers Find 7 Earth-Size Planets Around A Nearby Star Enlarge this image toggle caption NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA/JPL-Caltech A small, faint star relatively close by is home to seven Earth-size planets with conditions that could be right for liquid water and maybe even life. The discovery sets a record for both the most Earth-size planets and the most potentially habitable planets ever …

NASA's Hubble space telescope spots a planet orbiting two stars
8 years, 6 months ago

NASA's Hubble space telescope spots a planet orbiting two stars

India TV News  

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble space telescope have discovered a planet orbiting two stars in a system located about 8,000 light-years away towards the centre of our galaxy. "The ground-based observations suggested two possible scenarios for the three-body system: a Saturn-mass planet orbiting a close binary star pair or a Saturn-mass and an Earth-mass planet orbiting a single star," said David …

Nasa's Kepler spacecraft discovers a treasure trove of more than 100 new planets
8 years, 8 months ago

Nasa's Kepler spacecraft discovers a treasure trove of more than 100 new planets

Daily Mail  

An international team of astronomers have discovered a treasure trove of new worlds. A crop of more than 100 planets, discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, includes four in Earths size-range orbiting a single dwarf star. Both Kepler and its K2 mission discover new planets by measuring the subtle dip in a star's brightness caused by a planet passing in …

Astronomers discover Jupiter-like planet that orbits two Suns
8 years, 9 months ago

Astronomers discover Jupiter-like planet that orbits two Suns

India TV News  

Washington: A team of astronomers led by the team from Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland have used data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify a huge planet, almost the size of Jupiter, that orbits two Suns simultaneously. Planets that orbit two stars are known as circumbinary planets or sometimes "Tatooine" planets, after Luke Skywalker's home world in the …

Scientists confirm existence of 1,284 more Milky Way planets, including 9 that could be Earth-like
8 years, 10 months ago

Scientists confirm existence of 1,284 more Milky Way planets, including 9 that could be Earth-like

LA Times  

The Milky Way galaxy feels a little more crowded. After sifting through data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, scientists said Tuesday they’ve confirmed the existence of 1,284 planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. “We now know that exoplanets are common, that most stars in our galaxy have planetary systems, and that a reasonable fraction of the stars in our …

NASA’s Kepler discovers 1,284 planets
8 years, 10 months ago

NASA’s Kepler discovers 1,284 planets

CNN  

CNN — The Kepler mission has discovered 1,284 planets, the most exoplanets announced at one time, according to Princeton associate research scholar Timothy Morton during a NASA press conference. “Kepler is the first telescope for detecting small rocky planets in the habitable zone of their stars,” said Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA. Knowing this is the first step …

New planet may have been discovered, researchers say
9 years, 2 months ago

New planet may have been discovered, researchers say

CNN  

Story highlights Planet Nine has an orbit that's "about 20 times farther from the sun" than Neptune "We hope that other people are going to get inspired and start searching," researcher says CNN — You might have a replacement, Pluto. Nicknamed Planet Nine, it “has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from …

NASA mission finds 100 new alien planets
9 years, 2 months ago

NASA mission finds 100 new alien planets

The Hindu  

NASA’s revamped planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars. Uses the ‘transit method’ The spacecraft finds planets by the “transit method,” noting the tiny brightness dips caused when a planet crosses its host star’s face from Kepler’s perspective. The first five K2 campaigns, which each looked at a different part of the sky, “have …

NASA probe discovers new planet orbiting two stars
9 years, 7 months ago

NASA probe discovers new planet orbiting two stars

India TV News  

Washington: NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planet orbiting two stars and located within its host stars' "habitable zone", the area around the stars in which life could potentially exist. "But it could have moons that are rocky, which means you could have life on the moons in this system," said Stephen Kane, assistant professor of physics and astronomy …

Nasa's planet hunting Kepler Space Telescope set to make announcement
9 years, 8 months ago

Nasa's planet hunting Kepler Space Telescope set to make announcement

Daily Mail  

Astronomers may be preparing to announce the discovery of a planet similar to Earth that has been found orbiting another star. Nasa is due to hold a news conference on Thursday to reveal the latest discoveries from its Kepler Space Telescope, which has been scouring the skies for planets outside our own solar system. Scroll down for video Astronomers with …

Amazing Nasa animation reveals just how close we are to finding life on an alien planet
10 years, 11 months ago

Amazing Nasa animation reveals just how close we are to finding life on an alien planet

Daily Mail  

Amazing Nasa animation reveals just how close we are to finding life on an alien planet Nasa's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope was launched in 2009 To date it has found nearly 4,000 potential planets outside the solar system Its primary goal has been to find a true Earth 2.0, and it is getting closer Before Kepler we knew of only …

Nasa discovers 715 new planets outside solar system
11 years, 1 month ago

Nasa discovers 715 new planets outside solar system

Firstpost  

US space agency Nasa said on Wednesday its Kepler spacecraft has verified the existence of 715 more planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. Washington: US space agency Nasa said on Wednesday its Kepler spacecraft has verified the existence of 715 more planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. The latest discovery brings the confirmed count of planets beyond the …

NASA discovers 715 new planets outside solar system
11 years, 1 month ago

NASA discovers 715 new planets outside solar system

India TV News  

Washington: US space agency NASA said Wednesday its Kepler spacecraft has verified the existence of 715 more planets orbiting stars outside the solar system. The latest discovery brings the confirmed count of planets beyond the solar system to nearly 1,700, Jack Lissauer, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center told a press teleconference, Xinhua reported. "We've almost doubled just …

NASA announces 715 newly discovered planets
11 years, 1 month ago

NASA announces 715 newly discovered planets

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Earth’s galaxy is looking far more crowded and hospitable. Douglas Hudgins, NASA’s exoplanet exploration program scientist, called the announcement a major step toward the planet-hunting Kepler telescope’s ultimate goal: “finding Earth 2.0.” It’s a big step in not just finding other Earths, but “the possibility of life elsewhere,” said Lisa Kaltenegger, a Harvard and Max Planck Institute …

Scientists discover ‘tilted’ solar system
11 years, 5 months ago

Scientists discover ‘tilted’ solar system

The Hindu  

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope have discovered a distant planetary system with multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. Such tilted orbits had been found in planetary systems featuring a ‘hot Jupiter’, a giant planet in a close orbit to its host star. The research team studied regular changes in the brightness of …

Planets like Earth existed near old star: Astronomers discover evidence of planets beyond our solar system
11 years, 5 months ago

Planets like Earth existed near old star: Astronomers discover evidence of planets beyond our solar system

Daily Mail  

Planets like Earth existed near old star: Astronomers discover evidence of planets beyond our solar system Shattered remains of asteroid discovered 150 light years away from the Earth It is the first time that both water and a rocky surface have been found beyond our solar system Scientists believe it is a glimpse into the distant future of our own …

Number of alien planets discovered nears 1,000
11 years, 6 months ago

Number of alien planets discovered nears 1,000

The Hindu  

Astronomers are closing in on 1,000th alien planet to be discovered, just twenty years after spotting the first world beyond our solar system. In 1992, researchers detected two planets orbiting a rotating neutron star, or pulsar, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, however, confirmation of the first alien world circling a “normal” star like our Sun did not come until 1995. …

Kepler’s planet-hunting days over
11 years, 7 months ago

Kepler’s planet-hunting days over

The Hindu  

NASA’s Kepler space telescope will no longer scan the universe for Earth-like planets, the space agency has said, after attempts to fix a critical piece of equipment failed. “At the beginning of the mission, no one knew if Earth-size planets were abundant or rare in our galaxy,” chief Kepler scientist William Borucki told reporters on August 15, 2013. “Now at …

Nearly Half of Sun-Like Stars May Have Earth-Like Planets
12 years, 2 months ago

Nearly Half of Sun-Like Stars May Have Earth-Like Planets

Wired  

LONG BEACH, California – New estimates suggest that roughly 50 percent of sun-like stars could have planets the size of Earth orbiting in a place where liquid water might exist on their surface. “If you could randomly travel to a star, it will have planets,” said astronomer Francois Fressin from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, during a press conference today …

15 Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered by Amateur Astronomers
12 years, 2 months ago

15 Potentially Habitable Planets Discovered by Amateur Astronomers

Wired  

Volunteers from the Planethunters website have identified 15 new habitable planet candidates among data collected by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Launched in March 2007, Nasa's Kepler spacecraft has been searching for undiscovered exoplanets in the habitable zone of their parent stars using a wavelet-based algorithm called transit planet search, which detects the moment a planet passes in front of its star. …

Two milestones for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope for search of Earth-like planets
12 years, 4 months ago

Two milestones for NASA's Kepler Space Telescope for search of Earth-like planets

Firstpost  

Launched on March 6, 2009, scientists have used Kepler data to identify more than 2,300 planet candidates and confirm more than 100 planets. Washington: NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched to find potentially habitable, Earth-sized planets, has successfully completed its three-and-a-half-year prime mission and embarks on an extended one that could last four years. Launched on March 6, 2009, …

Tightly Packed Planets Spotted Around Sun-Like Star
12 years, 5 months ago

Tightly Packed Planets Spotted Around Sun-Like Star

Wired  

By Ian Steadman, Wired UK The Kepler space telescope has spotted the most tightly packed exoplanet system yet, with five planets orbiting around the star KOI-500 within a fraction of the distance between Mercury and our Sun. The outer four planets exist in a kind of orbital resonance, which sees them return to a set formation every 191 days -- …

Kepler mission discovers 11 planetary systems
13 years, 2 months ago

Kepler mission discovers 11 planetary systems

Firstpost  

NASA’s Kepler mission has been on a roll. In an official post on their website, NASA has confirmed that the Kepler mission has discovered 11 planetary systems, which are hosting 26 confirmed planets. Kepler’s Planetary Systems’ Orbits Revealing more on the identities of the discovered planets, NASA revealed that the planets were found to be orbiting close to their host …

Survey suggests billions of planets in galaxy › News in Science (ABC Science)
13 years, 2 months ago

Survey suggests billions of planets in galaxy › News in Science (ABC Science)

ABC  

News in Science Survey suggests billions of planets in galaxy Planets abound A new study suggests each star in the Milky Way galaxy is most likely orbited by a planet - and there's a good chance that planet is closer in size to Earth, than to Jupiter. "Planets orbiting stars in our galaxy is the rule, rather than the exception," …

Kepler's Telescope Locates 1,235 Alien Planets – Firstpost
13 years, 11 months ago

Kepler's Telescope Locates 1,235 Alien Planets – Firstpost

Firstpost  

The picture below at first may just seem to be a neat arrangement of objects. However, this image taken by the Kepler space telescope that was launched by NASA two years ago is anything but a mere arrangement. By the way of tracking dimming starlight, the telescope has captured a line of around 1,235 potential alien planets. Taken over a …

In search of a second earth
14 years ago

In search of a second earth

The Hindu  

The discovery of six exoplanets or extra-solar planets orbiting a single sun-like star, dubbed Kepler-11, at a distance of about 2,000 light-years from Earth makes it the largest collection to be ever found. The discovery by the Kepler spacecraft launched in March 2009 and reported recently online in Nature became possible as the Kepler telescope continuously looks out for exoplanets …

Among 1,200 possible planets, some seem like our own
14 years, 1 month ago

Among 1,200 possible planets, some seem like our own

China Daily  

STEVE EMBER: I'm Steve Ember. STEVE EMBER: Last week, American space agency scientists announced the discovery of possible Earth-like planets. STEVE EMBER: NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11. STEVE EMBER: Late last week, NASA said astronaut Mark Kelly would return to train with crewmembers on the last …

Planets found aplenty outside solar system
14 years, 1 month ago

Planets found aplenty outside solar system

The Hindu  

NASA’s planet-hunting telescope is finding whole new worlds of possibilities in the search for alien life. NASA released new data on Wednesday from its Kepler telescope on more than 1,000 possible new planets outside our solar system — more than doubling the count of what astronomers call exoplanets. While Kepler hasn’t yet found planets that are as small as Earth, …

Scientists estimate Earth-sized planets could be common
14 years, 5 months ago

Scientists estimate Earth-sized planets could be common

The Hindu  

A group of astronomers has estimated that as many as one in four stars similar to the Sun could be orbited by Earth-size planets. A five-year observation of 166 stars within 80 light years of Earth, using the powerful Keck telescope in Hawaii, counted planets orbiting the stars, down to the smallest planets now detectable by telescopes. Although the smallest …

Kepler telescope finds new planetary system
14 years, 7 months ago

Kepler telescope finds new planetary system

The Hindu  

The planet-hunting Kepler space telescope has found a new planetary system orbiting a distant star that could include a planet nearly the same size as Earth, NASA scientists said Thursday. The two confirmed planets are known as Kepler 9b and Kepler 9c, and quickly orbit around their sun-like star called Kepler 9 some 2,000 light years away from Earth, astronomers …

Vast solar system ‘discovered’ 127 light years away
14 years, 7 months ago

Vast solar system ‘discovered’ 127 light years away

The Hindu  

Astronomers have discovered what they claim is a vast solar system of seven planets, orbiting a sun-like star, 127 light years away from Earth. “Studies of planetary motions in the new system reveal complex gravitational interactions between the planets and give us insights into the long-term evolution of the system,” Dr Christophe Lovis, who led the European Southern Observatory scientists, …

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