Over 50 new exoplanets discovered, some potentially habitable
13 years, 6 months ago

Over 50 new exoplanets discovered, some potentially habitable

The Hindu  

Astronomers have discovered more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super—Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star, thanks to ESO’s world—leading exoplanet hunter HARPS. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets found so far, the team has found that about 40 percent of stars similar to the sun have at least one planet lighter than Saturn. "The harvest of discoveries from HARPS has exceeded all expectations and includes an exceptionally rich population of super—Earths and Neptune—type planets hosted by stars very similar to our Sun. In the eight years since it started surveying stars like the sun using the radial velocity technique, HARPS has been used to discover more than 150 new planets.

Planets Planet Harps  planets  team  stars  discovered  habitable  esos  superearths  exoplanets  similar  planet  exoplanet  discovery  potentially  50  harps

History of this topic

Nasa creates history with discovery of 6 new planets outside Solar System
8 months, 2 weeks 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 …

New Earth-sized planet discovered next to star that will outlive the Sun
10 months, 2 weeks ago

New Earth-sized planet discovered next to star that will outlive the Sun

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 Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star with a lifespan 100 …

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 …

Mighty Discovery: The alien planet that is 13 times more massive than Jupiter
1 year, 10 months ago

Mighty Discovery: The alien planet that is 13 times more massive than Jupiter

Firstpost  

A team of international scientists led by an Indian professor at Ahmedabad’s Physical Research Laboratory has detected an exoplanet that has the highest known density so far. “The discovery of this massive exoplanet was made using the indigenously made PRL Advanced Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search spectrograph at the 1.2 m telescope of PRL at its Gurushikhar Observatory in Mt. Earlier, NASA’s …

Scientists have now discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets
3 years ago

Scientists have now discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets

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. I get excited about every one because we don’t know anything about them.” The first confirmed exoplanets …

Astronomers discover exoplanet that behaves like long theorized Planet Nine
4 years, 3 months ago

Astronomers discover exoplanet that behaves like long theorized Planet Nine

Hindustan Times  

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers and astronauts identify a bizarre exoplanet that behaves a lot like the long hypothesised ‘Planet Nine’. However, for scientists to pinpoint the Jupiter-like planet’s orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope was required to collect accurate measurements of its motion over 14 years. Hubble scientists also …

Scientists find two dozen ‘superhabitable’ exoplanets located over 100 light-years away
4 years, 5 months ago

Scientists find two dozen ‘superhabitable’ exoplanets located over 100 light-years away

Firstpost  

Looking among the 4,500 known exoplanets, 24 planets were shortlisted that ranged from anywhere between five billion years and eight billion years old. In a study led by Washington State University9WSU) geobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, two dozen exoplanets have been identified that are “super habitable” for living beings. They looked among the 4,500 known exoplanets and shortlisted those that range from …

Forty-five known exoplanets possess an Earth-like atmosphere
4 years, 6 months ago

Forty-five known exoplanets possess an Earth-like atmosphere

Daily Mail  

Astronomers have found at least 45 planets orbiting distant stars that possess Earth-like qualities including a similar atmosphere and life sustaining liquid water. Only 17 of the 55 planets in the catalogue met the criteria defined by the Swedish researchers for being 'Earth-like' but the team found another 28 planets on the wider exoplanet list that also met the criteria …

Astronomers discover two super-Earth exoplanets, orbiting a star, 11 light-years away
4 years, 9 months ago

Astronomers discover two super-Earth exoplanets, orbiting a star, 11 light-years away

Firstpost  

A group of astronomers working on the Red Dots project observed the star using the European Southern Observatory in Chile for three months. Astronomers have discovered two super-Earth exoplanets that are orbiting a star 11 light-years away from Earth. The report added that a group of astronomers working on the Red Dots project observed the star using the European Southern …

A cold Neptune and two super-Earths are among newly found exoplanets around nearby stars
5 years, 2 months ago

A cold Neptune and two super-Earths are among newly found exoplanets around nearby stars

CNN  

CNN — Five exoplanets and eight planet candidates have been found around nearby stars, including a “cold Neptune” and two super-Earths that are potentially habitable, according to a new study. The two super-Earths, GJ180d and GJ229Ac, were found around small red dwarf stars that are 19 and 40 light-years away from our sun, while the cold Neptune was found around …

NASA's space telescopes help identify Earth-like exoplanet 48.6 light-years away
5 years, 7 months ago

NASA's space telescopes help identify Earth-like exoplanet 48.6 light-years away

Firstpost  

The exoplanet is 1.3 times larger than Earth and is locked in a tight orbit around a small, relatively cool star. The planet lies about 48.6 light-years from Earth and is one of more than 4,000 so-called exoplanets identified over the past two decades circling distant stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Known to astronomers as LHS 3844b, …

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 …

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 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 …

NASA’s Kepler mission finds 219 exoplanets, 10 Earth-size
7 years, 9 months ago

NASA’s Kepler mission finds 219 exoplanets, 10 Earth-size

CNN  

Story highlights Kepler has now identified 4,034 planet candidates, with 2,335 confirmed as exoplanets Ten of the planets are potentially rocky and similar to the size of Earth CNN — The NASA Kepler mission has discovered 219 more exoplanets, including 10 Earth-size planets, program scientist Mario Perez said Monday at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California. This new data from …

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 …

Exoplanet discovery: Five facts you didn't know about Nasa’s new solar system
8 years, 1 month ago

Exoplanet discovery: Five facts you didn't know about Nasa’s new solar system

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. Read our privacy policy Nasa's announcement of the discovery of a new solar system including …

Nasa's discovery of 7 earth-sized exoplanets is a significant step in the search for alien lifeforms
8 years, 1 month ago

Nasa's discovery of 7 earth-sized exoplanets is a significant step in the search for alien lifeforms

Firstpost  

In a remarkable step towards answering the question “Are we alone in the universe”, astronomers have spotted a nearby star with seven Earth-size planets. In a remarkable step towards answering the question “Are we alone in the universe”, astronomers have spotted a nearby star with seven Earth-size planets which could harbour liquid water, key to life as we know it, …

Scientists find a hot 'super-Earth' and 60 more planets, boosting chances of discovering life
8 years, 1 month ago

Scientists find a hot 'super-Earth' and 60 more planets, boosting chances of discovering life

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. Read our privacy policy Astronomers have found 60 new planets near our own – boosting …

Exoplanet discovery: Watch to know more about inside world of Trappist-1 star and its orbiting planets
8 years, 1 month ago

Exoplanet discovery: Watch to know more about inside world of Trappist-1 star and its orbiting planets

Firstpost  

Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found seven Earth like exoplanets in orbit around a single ultracool white dwarf star. Three of the planets were initially identified as the exoplanets most suitable for life as we know it on Earth, by an international team of astronomers last year. The weather on these worlds would be more extreme than those on Earth, …

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-like planets orbiting Trappist-1, but exactly what is an exoplanet?
8 years, 1 month ago

Exoplanet discovery: Seven Earth-like planets orbiting Trappist-1, but exactly what is an exoplanet?

Firstpost  

Seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our Galaxy called Trappist-1, revealed Wednesday, are the most recent — and arguably the most spectacular — in a string of exoplanet discoveries going back 20 years. Paris: Seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in our Galaxy called Trappist-1, revealed Wednesday, are the most recent — and arguably the most spectacular …

Exoplanet discovery: Nasa telescope finds seven Earth sized exoplanets around a single star
8 years, 1 month ago

Exoplanet discovery: Nasa telescope finds seven Earth sized exoplanets around a single star

Firstpost  

Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found seven Earth like exoplanets in orbit around a single ultracool white dwarf star. Spitzer, Hubble and Kepler will all be used to help Nasa scientists plan for follow-up observations using the James Webb Space Telescope which will launch in 2018. The James Webb Space Telescope can detect signs of water, methane, oxygen, ozone and …

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 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 …

Three planets discovered orbiting nearby cool small star 'best places to look for life'
8 years, 10 months ago

Three planets discovered orbiting nearby cool small star 'best places to look for life'

ABC  

Astronomers have discovered three planets orbiting the habitable zone of an ultra-cool dwarf star just 40 light-years from Earth. Key points: First time planets have been detected around ultracool dwarf stars, which make up 15pc of the stars near the Sun Discovery pushes limits of current telescopes Newer telescopes will enable scientists to study the planets' atmosphere and mass The …

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 …

Welcome To The Neighborhood: 2 Super-Earths Discovered
9 years, 11 months ago

Welcome To The Neighborhood: 2 Super-Earths Discovered

NPR  

Welcome To The Neighborhood: 2 Super-Earths Discovered Enlarge this image toggle caption Karen Termaura, BJ Fulton/UH IfA Karen Termaura, BJ Fulton/UH IfA Using telescopes in Hawaii and California, astronomers have found two super-Earth-size planets orbiting a star a mere 54 light-years away. Sponsor Message "Me and my team started observing with APF about August of last year," says Benjamin "B.J." …

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 …

First exoplanet found around sun-like star
11 years, 2 months ago

First exoplanet found around sun-like star

The Hindu  

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star much like the sun, the European Southern Observatory, located in Chile’s northern desert, said. The cluster lies about 2,500 light years away in the constellation of Cancer, where one of the planets orbits a star very similar to our sun, the ESO said in a statement on Wednesday. Despite the fact that …

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. …

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 -- …

Exoplanet neighbour smaller than Earth discovered
12 years, 8 months ago

Exoplanet neighbour smaller than Earth discovered

Firstpost  

U.S. astrophysicists have detected what could be the first exoplanet, only two-thirds the size of Earth but without an atmosphere, located right around the corner, cosmically speaking, at a mere 33 light-years away. Stevenson and his colleagues were studying a hot-Neptune exoplanet, designated GJ 436b, already known to exist around the red-dwarf star GJ 436, when data yielded clues that …

Astronomers Claim Biggest Haul Of Other Worlds
13 years, 6 months ago

Astronomers Claim Biggest Haul Of Other Worlds

India TV News  

Paris, Sep 13: Astronomers today unveiled a haul of more than 50 planets orbiting other stars, including a “super-Earth” which inhabits a zone where, providing conditions are right, water could exist in liquid form. It is the biggest single tally in the history of exoplanet hunting since the very first world beyond the Solar System was spotted in 1995, the …

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 …

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 …

Seven new planets discovered
14 years, 9 months ago

Seven new planets discovered

The Hindu  

An international team, including scientists from the Oxford University, has discovered seven diverse new planets, from “shrunken Saturns” to “bloated hot Jupiters”, as well as a rare brown dwarf with 60 times the mass of Jupiter. “Each of these planets is interesting in its own right, but what is really fascinating is how diverse they are”, said co-investigator Dr Suzanne …

NASA's Kepler discovers five exoplanets
15 years, 2 months ago

NASA's Kepler discovers five exoplanets

The Hindu  

NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. “These observations contribute to our understanding of how planetary systems form and evolve from the gas and dust disks that give rise to both the stars and their planets,” said William …

Exoplanets Galore! 32 Alien Planets Discovered, Including Super-Earths
15 years, 5 months ago

Exoplanets Galore! 32 Alien Planets Discovered, Including Super-Earths

Wired  

Thirty-two new alien orbs have just been added to the growing list of exoplanets, including several that qualify as "super-Earths," meaning they have a mass only a few times that of our planet and could potentially harbor Earth-like environments. In the past five years, the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, a special exoplanet-hunting device attached to a 3.6-meter telescope …

Discover Related