Sentences with phrase «of exoplanets»

But if the abundances of heavy elements in atmospheres of exoplanets in other systems resemble the abundances for planets of similar mass closer to home, then those exoplanets were probably created in similar ways.

«TESS anticipates the discovery of thousands of exoplanets of all sizes around a variety of star types,» the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is leading the mission, said in a statement.

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

[1] To date, studies of exoplanet atmospheres have been dominated by a small number of well - studied planets.

On this week's show: Kevin Wagner discusses direct detection of an exoplanet in a three - star system; plus, a roundup of news stories

That tally, the result of only about 13 months of data collection, is more than twice the number of exoplanets discovered from Earth in the previous 15 years.

Until these findings by Dr Southworth's team, the only previous detections of exoplanet atmospheres all involved gas giants reminiscent of a high - temperature Jupiter.

In summary, I'll be keeping a close eye on the developments in the field of exoplanet studies, it truly is a noble effort driven by the search for extraterrestrial life, but I won't be celebrating quite yet, for the reasons I outlined in a Facebook comment on the Discovery News fan page yesterday:

More than 1,000 of these were discovered by NASA's Kepler mission, breaking wide open the field of exoplanet science.

As the number of exoplanets discovered continues to grow exponentially, the number of potentially habitable worlds out there continues to increase as well.

Soon, detailed observations of exoplanet atmospheres will become possible.

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

«Much of the coronagraph imaging technology needed for Project Blue to take direct images of exoplanets from space has been developed through NASA - funded programs.

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has played a pivotal role in the characterization of exoplanet atmospheres.

In combinations with other methods of planet detection, direct imaging and spectroscopy will allow us to eventually: 1) fully map out the architecture of typical planetary systems and 2) study the atmospheric properties of exoplanets in depth.

Many continuing discoveries, such as the geysers of Enceladus, the subsurface ocean of Europa, the methane rivers, lakes and seas of Titan, the mountains and glaciers of Pluto, the cold but beautiful deserts of Mars and the thousands of exoplanets orbiting other stars make this an exciting time of exploration and discovery.

This has strong implications in our understanding of the exoplanet population in the Kepler field».

The discovery of hundreds of exoplanet candidates by NASA's Kepler mission enables astronomers to characterize the eccentricity distribution of small exoplanets.

Mark Swain, an astronomer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., and his colleagues used a three - meter telescope in Hawaii to take infrared spectra of the exoplanet HD 189733 b, a relatively nearby exoplanet some 63 light - years distant that was discovered at a French observatory in 2005.

That expertise will now be applied to the new area of exoplanet systems science.

We present here new constraints on planet formation timescales derived from the rotational evolution of exoplanet host stars.

NSF has funded these transformative efforts for more than two decades, with research grants resulting directly in the first detection of multi-planet systems, the first detection of exoplanets with masses as small as that of Saturn, and the first planets detected using the technique of gravitational lensing of the radiation from background stars.

Studying the climates of well - observed Solar System planets provides the necessary foundation for understanding habitability of exoplanets for which there will be less detailed information.

Kepler is revealing hundreds of exoplanet discoveries, what are the chances of finding extraterrestrial life on these alien worlds?

The large majority of exoplanets cataloged so far are very close to their host stars because several current planet - hunting techniques favor finding planets in short - period orbits.

Seager's research focuses on computer models of exoplanet atmospheres, interiors and biosignatures.

They were able to precisely derive the physical size of the exoplanets by carefully measuring the size of their stars.

It's the beginning of a new era of exoplanet research.»

Most of the exoplanets discovered so far were spotted using the transit method: watching for the slight dimming of the star when a planet crosses in front of it.

A team of MIT researchers has described a new method for finding the mass of exoplanets by studying the spectra of light passing through the planet's atmosphere.

Furthermore, these insights can be taken and used to better understand the nature of exoplanets discovered beyond our Solar System.

Whereas NASA's Kepler Space Telescope seeks out the transits of exoplanets across the face of their stars, microlensing can detect entire star systems with exoplanets in far - flung orbits, but this can only be done with confirmation from Hubble.

Im especially interested in how exoplanets form: my research focusses on constraining planet formation models from observations of exoplanet populations and of protoplanetary disks.

Reporting in the journal Nature, scientists used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study WASP - 121b, a type of exoplanet called a «hot Jupiter.»

It was designed to look at the atmospheres of exoplanets for characteristic signs of life — water vapor, methane (made by bacteria), and oxygen (made by plant photosynthesis).

What we have learned is that the diversity of exoplanet systems is immense.

A new catalog of exoplanet discoveries by NASA's Kepler space telescope has revealed two distinct size groups of small alien worlds, a finding that likely will have a huge impact on the search for extraterrestrial life.

In the last several years he was able to confirm the existence of exoplanets HD 149026 b?

«To do this, we developed computer models of exoplanets which simulate the abundances of different biomarkers and the way they affect the light shining through a planet's atmosphere.»

Each of these telescopes and space missions will help piece together a bigger picture that describes the range of exoplanets out there in the Universe, how many planetary systems are like the Solar System, how many are different, and how common planets like Earth are, which leads to the next great question: do those planets have life?

Infrared transmission spectroscopy of the exoplanets HD 209458b and XO - 1b using the Wide Field Camera - 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers have a problem because many of the exoplanets discoveries have overturned the old theories of planet formation.

«If we are going to answer questions, such as how is the chemistry of a planet linked to the environment in which it forms, or is its birth and evolution driven by its host star, we need to study a statistically large sample of exoplanets.

Over the past couple decades, astronomers have been discovering a seemingly endless variety of exoplanets orbiting other stars.

With greater knowledge of the composition of exoplanet atmospheres and their dynamics, astronomers hope to figure out which formation theories can explain the diversity of planet types revealed over the past 2 decades.

Once the coronagraph zeros in on the faint light of an exoplanet, a low - resolution spectrometer then analyzes the chemical «fingerprints» of that world.