Sentences with phrase «discovery of exoplanets»

The rapid rate of discovery of exoplanets can be attributed to the maturity of Doppler spectroscopy, by which astronomers measure a planet's gravitational tug on its host star, and by a technique involving «transiting» planets — looking for planets that move between their host stars and Earth, the method used by Mandushev to find TrES - 4.

Since the very first discoveries of exoplanets 20 years ago, NSF - funded research has transformed the frontiers of exoplanet research, enabling us to address a fundamental question: «Are there other places out there where life could exist, and what kind of life is there?»

The researchers achieved this extraordinary discovery of exoplanets by combining NASA's K2 mission data with follow - up observations by Earth - based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, the twin Gemini telescopes on Maunakea and in Chile, the Automated Planet Finder of the University of California Observatories and the Large Binocular Telescope operated by the University of Arizona.

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A new generation of ground - and space - based observatories that have come online during the last decade has helped to kick exoplanet research into high gear, with new discoveries of exoplanets announced almost on a weekly basis.

The first discovery of an exoplanet was in 1992 and since then thousands exoplanets have been found using several different methods.

In hindsight, one can say that if it hadn't been for the discovery of exoplanets, we never would have been approved to do Corot.

Collins announced the discovery of exoplanet KELT - 6b Tuesday, June 4, during the American Astronomical Society's national meeting in Indianapolis.

Runners - up for 2016's Breakthrough of the Year include lab - grown human embryos, the discovery of the exoplanet next door, and portable DNA sequencers.

Before I answer that question, let's turn back the clock to Sept. 29, 2010, when, in the wake of the discovery of the exoplanet Gliese 581 g, Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News: «Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on [Gliese 581 g] are 100 percent.

Prior to the discovery of exoplanets, astronomers assumed that our solar system's configuration was typical.

radio signal in 1977 (the signal's source remains disputed); the 1996 announcement of fossilized microbes in a Martian meteorite; the strange behavior of Tabby's Star reported in 2015; and 2017's discoveries of exoplanets that exist within distant habitable zones.

Learn about the discovery of exoplanets in the TRAPPIST - 1 system in this 2017 video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.