Sentences with phrase «new planet discoveries»

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Added to Kepler's previous discoveries, the 10 new Earthlike planet candidates make 49 total, Thompson said.

NASA scientists on Monday announced the discovery of 219 new objects beyond our solar system that are almost certainly planets.

Here's our discussion with them, which swings from how the discovery of a new planet inspired them to what sci - fi influenced the series.

Yesterday I was reading comments on the CNN article about NASA and the discovery of new planets... and the day before the one about the 4.4 billion year - old crystal.

It deals with the setup with artificially created earthquakes at certain precise locations on the planet where, supposedly, new discoveries will finally explain to all people the error of all fundamental religious doctrines.

The American Museum of Natural History here in New York had an exhibit last year called «Beyond Planet Earth» and almost every part of it was directed, in slightly breathless prose, to the possible discovery of a microbe here or there.

While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to yield new discoveries for decades to come.

This discovery sheds new light on the atmospheric composition of the planet and also refutes previous hypotheses about WASP - 12b's atmosphere.

• New Scientist, costing 35 pence, reports the discovery of a moon orbiting Pluto and that Pluto should be reclassified as a «minor planet»

Optimism for an unseen Neptune - like planet in our solar system may be dimmed by the discovery of a new batch of distant worlds.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

«Freshwater on our planet is increasingly under stress and strain so the discovery of significant new stores off the coast is very exciting,» Post said.

HD 85512b In September European astronomers announced the discovery of 50 new planets, including one of the most Earthlike ones yet: HD 85512b, a rocky world just 3.6 times as massive as our own and mild enough to have liquid water.

Such «transits» are how Kepler found the vast majority of its planets; but many things besides planets can cause stars to slightly dim, leading to far more false alarms than discoveries of new worlds.

Although the atmosphere of this type of planet was expected to have water, the discovery showcased astronomers» new ability to detect it, a necessary step in finding extraterrestrial life.

It was the discovery of a consistent year - to - year profile that allowed the researchers to move beyond a previous analysis, in which they identified the hottest spots on Earth, to the development of a new global - change indicator that uses the entire planet's maximum land surface temperatures.

RR245 is the largest discovery and the only dwarf planet found by OSSOS, which has discovered more than five hundred new trans - Neptunian objects.

San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.

The discovery of this new component of the magnetic field may explain why in the case of Venus, Earth's «twin» planet, the liquid metal core does not produce a magnetic field.

The multitude of fainter water - rich, free - floating brown dwarfs and planets within the Orion nebula are all new discoveries.

Mersini - Houghton places this new conception of the universe in the context of the discovery that Earth is one of many planets, the sun one of many stars, the Milky Way one of many galaxies.

New discoveries are making chlorophyll - d and a cyanobacterium named Acaryochloris marina interesting for scientists trying to find life on extrasolar planets

Excitement over the new planet in Pegasus couldn't obscure another important astronomical discovery made in 1995: the best evidence yet for the existence of brown dwarfs.

He has some reason to be optimistic, as the new definition has already been adopted by Planet Science Research Discoveries, an educational website founded by scientists at the University of Hawaii.

Borucki likes to call the new discovery the Christmas planet.

Likewise, when astronomers announced that they had found six new planets orbiting distant suns earlier this month, the real value of the discoveries lay in the possibility of understanding the mechanics of planet formation in ways that would have been impossible a mere five years ago.

According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.

But a new discovery published August 24 in Nature hits closer to home, with an Earth - mass planet in the habitable zone of its star.

Even with the new discovery, Pluto remains mysterious planet, because no spacecraft has yet flown past it.

The discovery of Kepler 452b was announced today along with the latest edition of Kepler's catalog of exoplanet candidates, adding 500 new possible planets for a total of 4175.

A search based at institutions in the U.K. and Spain, the Wide - Angle Search for Planets (WASP), reported the discovery of some two dozen new pPlanets (WASP), reported the discovery of some two dozen new planetsplanets.

The new discovery of a large number of small planets suggests that they are abundant in our galaxy, and outnumber Jupiter - sized giants by 3 to 1.

Between the super-Earths, the circumbinary planet, and the dozens of other new discoveries, researchers are now turning up exoplanets in unprecedented numbers.

The telescope used in the discovery was too small to tell scientists much new about the previously discovered planet.

The discovery of a novel high - density mineral means that Earth's mantle is a more restless place than scientists suspected — and offers new clues to the planet's history

A report in the journal Nature cites the discovery of a new planet, WASP - 18b, which challenges assumptions about tidal interactions — it's too close and orbiting too fast not to have collided with its star, according to current knowledge.

NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets.

By NIGEL HENBESTWhen the discovery of «a new planet called Smiley» hit the headlines a month ago, it brought a few smiles to astronomers» faces.

In the past dozen years, however, numerous exoplanetary discoveries have been announced, including a suite of 30 new planets unveiled in October by the European Southern Observatory's HARPS planet - finding collaboration that boosted the full set of known exoplanets to more than 400.

New work led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty surveyed various properties of 152 suspected young brown dwarfs in order to categorize their diversity and found that atmospheric properties may be behind much of their differences, a discovery that may apply to planets outside the solar system as well.

Last year, the discovery of an Earth - like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri set off a new wave of scientific and public interest in the system.

Like the new discovery, Kepler - 62f is a «super Earth,» about 40 percent larger than our home planet.

Early discoveries by NASA's newest Mars orbiter are starting to reveal key features about the loss of the planet's atmosphere to space over time.

The new discovery, Kepler - 452b, fires the planet hunter's imagination because it is the most similar to the Earth - sun system found yet: a planet at the right temperature within the habitable zone, and only about one - and - a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a star very much like our own sun.

Even so, the new paper presents «a marvelously intriguing result,» says Geoff Marcy, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomy professor who has collaborated with Vogt and Butler on numerous planet discoveries in the past but was not involved in the new study.

Based on the incredible discoveries of Kepler, researchers hope that TESS will find thousands of new planets, this time in our celestial backyard.

The new discoveries were made with the help of the radial velocity method, which looks for the periodic shifts of certain spectral lines in a star's light that are caused by the gravitational tug of invisible planets which orbit the star.

The IAU symposium 293 will bring together scientists from around the world to present new discoveries, and discuss ideas on the formation, detection, and characterization of extrasolar habitable planets.

The other new discovery, HD 286123b (which had also been independently found by Brahm et al), is a larger and more massive planet producing a 0.8 % dip.

Repeated observations over many years allowed us to separate the starspot signals from the signatures of these new planets,» said Evan Sinukoff, a UH graduate student who contributed to the discovery.