Sentences with phrase «planet candidates announced»
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NASA came under criticism in June when it announced that its space - based telescope Kepler had detected 706 potential new exoplanets, but only released data for 306 of the candidate planets.
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At a NASA press conference today that also unveiled more than 500 other new candidate planets, Kepler's mission scientists announced they have finally found and confirmed what looks to be the mission's long - sought holy grail, a near - twin of Earth called Kepler 452 b.
At the press conference, which marked the start of the 5 - day First Kepler Science Conference here at NASA Ames, Batalha also announced 1094 new planet candidates found by Kepler since February 2011, bringing the total to a whopping 2326.
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.
Several Earth - like planets and super-Earths have been detected in the habitable zones of their host stars and more than 2300 planetary candidates have been announced.
We also statistically validate 18 planets (eight of which were previously unpublished), confirm the earlier validation of 21 planets, and announce 17 newly discovered planet candidates.
As part of the analysis, NASA announced the discovery of 833 candidate planets.
Today, the Kepler space telescope team announced its latest list of discoveries, a total of 219 new candidate exoplanets, ten of which are rocky planets in the so - called habitable zone.
The European Space Agency has announced four candidate landing sites for the ExoMars rover, as a deadline looms to secure full funding for the mission in time for a scheduled launch to the red planet in 2018.
Centauri B, the K - class star in close proximity to G - class Centauri A, was much in the news a few years back with the announcement of Centauri Bb, a candidate world announced by Swiss planet hunters.
On January 26, 2012, scientists working on NASA's Kepler Mission team announced the discovery of 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets, as well as additional planetary candidates.
On December 5, 2011, on the opening of its inaugural science conference at NASA's Ames Research Center, the Kepler Mission team announced 1,094 new planetary candidates, bringing the running total of potential planet discoveries to 2,326.