Sentences with phrase «findings about exoplanet»

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John Asher Johnson, who found the smallest exoplanet to date, proves an invaluable guide in his book about one of science's hottest fields

«Given the concerns about our own environment and climate change, finding an exoplanet that might experience the runaway greenhouse much sooner than we will made us reflect on the Earth's near - and long - term prospects for habitability,» Jenkins says.

Almost 140 exoplanets have been found in the past 7 years by indirect means, and there have been a few false alarms about actual sightings.

Astronomers have been finding exoplanets out in the cosmos for 25 years, and if we've learned anything about all those planets, it's that a lot of different, weird kinds exist.

TESS will be able to search 350 times more area of the sky than Kepler can, and is expected to find about 20,000 exoplanets in its first two years alone.

Previously, researchers had found water only on exoplanets that are about the size of Jupiter.

More information about exoplanets and NASA's planet - finding program is at http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov.

Although many have been found and they appear to be the most abundant type of exoplanet in the galaxy, current telescopes can tell us little about them.

So far it's found 2,740 possible exoplanets that fit the bill, and recent discoveries have the science community buzzing about the odds of life elsewhere.

The oldest detected Kepler planets (exoplanets found using NASA's Kepler telescope) are about 11 billion years old, and the planetary diversity suggests that around other stars, such initially frozen worlds could be the size of Earth and could even provide habitable conditions once the star becomes older.

Although this is very exciting, the key thing to remember is that we are talking about exoplanet candidates, which means Kepler has detected 1,235 exoplanet signals, but more work needs to be done (i.e. more observing time) to refine their orbits, masses and, critically, to find out whether they actually exist.

Kepler's finds at that time totaled 2,235 planets, with the number of overall exoplanets discovered (by all observatories) totalling about 3,200.

Preferred Hosts for Short - Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler - discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they're found.

We often discuss and talk about exoplanets as isolated entities, but this discovery is a poster child for how important interactions between a planet and its host star can be, and a good reminder that planets are being found in large and dynamic solar systems.

According to the predictions mission scientists have made for the telescope, it should be able to find about 20,000 exoplanets, of which dozens should be about the size of Earth.

Students learn about the transit method for finding planets and they use Kepler's 3rd law to determine whether the exoplanet Kepler - 22b is habitable.