Earth-size, habitable zone planet Kepler-1649c found hidden in early NASA Kepler data
NASA on Wednesday announced that scientists have discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water. It added that a team of transatlantic scientists using reanalyzed data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, made the discovery.
Apr 15, 2020, 23:51 PM ISTScientists come across 'Vampire' star gorging on victim
The new program acts as a detective to find clues of very fast, mysterious explosions in the universe.
Jan 26, 2020, 12:38 PM ISTCitizen scientists find new planet, twice Earth's size, using NASA telescope
Located 226 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, the planet lies in a stellar system known as K2-288.
Jan 10, 2019, 16:43 PM ISTAstronomers discover over 100 new exoplanets
They confirmed that 104 of them are really exoplanets. Seven of the confirmed exoplanets have ultra-short orbital periods less than 24 hours.
Dec 05, 2018, 11:31 AM ISTPlanet hunting Kepler telescope wakes up again: NASA
After the Kepler space telescope, Tess is the second spacecraft which will search for planets outside our solar system, including those that could support life.
Sep 06, 2018, 14:37 PM ISTNASA's planet-seeking Kepler space telescope may run out of fuel within several months
NASA's Kepler 'K2' mission has already completed 16 campaigns, and this month entered its 17th.
Mar 16, 2018, 12:14 PM ISTGoogle AI that helped NASA find exoplanets now open for all
Google hopes the open-sourced code will prove a useful starting point for developing similar models for other NASA missions, like K2 (Kepler's second mission) and the upcoming "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite" mission.
Mar 12, 2018, 17:06 PM ISTHere's how Google AI helped NASA in its discovery of two exoplanets
The Google AI found exoplanets using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
Dec 15, 2017, 11:24 AM ISTBig Kepler revelation: NASA discovers a solar system just like ours with eight planets
Sitting around a Sun-like star 2,545 light years away in the constellation Draco, Kepler-90i – like Earth – is also the third rock from its sun - though it sits much closer, circling its star every 14.4 days.
Dec 15, 2017, 08:35 AM ISTDo aliens exist? NASA likely to make big revelation soon
As per a press release by NASA, the team at the Kepler Space Telescope has been searching for extra-terrestrial life since 2009, and now they have found something spell binding.
Dec 11, 2017, 12:10 PM ISTReason behind mysterious dips in brightness of 'alien megastructure' star discovered
The Boyajian Star, as it is also known, was recently in the news after astronomers discovered that it had started dimming again.
Oct 05, 2017, 12:10 PM ISTHave astronomers found the first exomoon beyond our solar system? - Read
The Kepler Space Telescope finds planets by watching them pass in front of their stars, causing a dip in the stars’ light. The new potential moon was found in the same way – as a moon orbits its planet, it leads to an extra fall in the starlight coming from behind.
Jul 28, 2017, 09:53 AM ISTNASA's Kepler telescope finds 219 new planet candidates; 10 of which are Earth-like worlds
With the latest release, Kepler has detected a total of 4,034 planet candidates, of which 2,335 have been verified as exoplanets.
Jun 20, 2017, 08:55 AM ISTMysterious 'alien megastructure' star starts dimming again, leaves astronomers baffled - Watch video
Astronomers are baffled as the most mysterious 'alien megastructure' star in the Universe just kicked into action again with its light dimming in bizarre ways.
May 24, 2017, 22:54 PM ISTNASA's Kepler telescope reveals orbital details of TRAPPIST-1 system's outermost and least understood planet
Astronomers studying NASA's Kepler Space Telescope identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, confirming suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h.
May 23, 2017, 12:42 PM ISTScientists baffled after mysterious 'alien megastructure' star starts dimming again!
As per reports, on Friday, May 19, a sudden dip in brightness of the Tabby Star observed in the skies, resulted in many astronomers pointing their telescopes at the star to decode its curious signals.
May 21, 2017, 09:01 AM ISTNASA's Hubble triumphs again, discovers moon orbiting solar system's third-largest dwarf planet!
The team uncovered the moon in archival images of 2007 OR10 taken by the Hubble Telescope.
May 19, 2017, 13:26 PM ISTVenus look-alike planet discovered orbiting dim dwarf star!
The study of planets similar to the Venus analogue Kepler 1649b is "becoming increasingly important in order to understand the habitable zone boundaries of M dwarfs.
Apr 10, 2017, 23:03 PM ISTExoplanets discovery: NASA's Kepler provides more information about TRAPPIST-1
Scientists believe the release of the raw, uncalibrated data collected will aid astronomers in preparing proposals due this month to use telescopes on Earth next winter to further investigate TRAPPIST-1.
Mar 09, 2017, 11:30 AM ISTNASA's Kepler watches stellar dancers in Pleiades cluster!
The US space agency NASA has released a beautiful image of the Pleiades cluster of stars which was seen through the eyes of WISE, or its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
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