Sentences with phrase «planet search efforts»

Abstract: Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process.
We analyze a sample of 1194 stars drawn from the California Planet Survey targets to determine the empirical functional form describing the likelihood of a star harboring a giant plane... ▽ More Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process.

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It will revolutionize our knowledge of rocky planets and will enable the first directed search for life around sunlike stars in the next decade,» says Don Pollacco of the University of Warwick, who will lead the U.K. effort.
Here on Earth, space researchers are focusing most of their search efforts on planets and moons that are too far away to see directly.
Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, astrobiologists Alberto Fairén of Cornell University and Dirk Schulze - Makuch of Washington State University say the NASA Office of Planetary Protection's «detailed and expensive» efforts to keep Earth microorganisms off Mars are making missions to search for life on the red planet «unviable.»
PORTLAND, Maine — The Planet Dog Foundation is making an emergency donation to the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation to support the efforts of their teams currently active in Haiti.
Platforms: Xbox 360 / PC / PlayStation 3 Developer: Spark Unlimited Publisher: Capcom Genre: Third Person Shooter Platform Played: PlayStation 3 The Earth is running out of resources, and it's becoming a dire predicament for humanity, forcing humans to search other planets in an effort to gain the resources necessary to keep -LSB-...]
We are witnessing the inauguration of new instruments of cooperation, which will act as a basis for supporting other national and international efforts directed toward the search for economies that are in harmony with society, nature and the planet.
Spend even the briefest effort doing a combined internet search of the words «Exxon» and «climate change», and it becomes abundantly obvious that enviro - activists have long believed Exxon is a fundamental threat to the planet (full archived text here), and now that Exxon's CEO — who supposedly has overseen a climate denial machine (full text here) over the last decade — has been tapped by President - elect Trump to be Secretary of State, we should be terrified of him.
As part of an effort to identify distant planets hospitable to life, NASA has established a crowdsourcing project in which volunteers search telescopic images for evidence of debris disks around...
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