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Astronomers Plan to Search Alien Life on Long-Dead Exoplanets

When the upcoming age of observatories arises, the Cornell University astronomers plan to use them to track any distant long-dead exoplanets and fingerprints of alien life. They won’t scan any exoplanets, but only those that are orbiting dead stars. When…

May 4, 2020 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

WFIRST Will Employ Advanced Techniques To Track Down Exoplanets

Many of the exoplanets that are currently known have been discovered with the use of the transit method. This method involves the observation of the light produced by a star over a specific timeframe. If a planet passes in front…

April 21, 2020 ·by Anna Daniels· 0

Scientists Believe That Exoplanets Orbiting Two Stars Lead To Misaligned Orbits

The exoplanets are a new subject to study that would bring the humanity one step closer to understand the mystery of the Universe. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is currently studying the outer space to determine whether exotic exoplanets that…

April 13, 2020 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

NASA’s LISA Can Pinpoint Some Exciting Exoplanets

A large number of exoplanets were found with the help of LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). LIGO is quite good, but a significant issue stemmed from the fact that the instrument has to focus on ignoring a large amount…

July 11, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Astronomers Discovered Two Potentially Habitable Exoplanets 12 Light Years Away From Earth

According to an announcement made by astronomers a few days ago, two planets orbiting a small star 12 light-years away from us could potentially host life. The star, known as Teegarden, is at least eight billion years old, which makes…

June 20, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Baby Exoplanets Found Pinching Gas from Their Host Star

One of the most common and, nevertheless, challenging way to discover exoplanets is taking pictures of a planet. Most of the time, the images of exoplanets are artists’ impressions of how they would look like. Now, we have the first…

June 5, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Eighteen Earth-Sized Exoplanets Have Been Identified So Far

At this point, we know of 400 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, but 96% of them are considerably larger than Earth, comparable in size with Jupiter. The remaining 4% of planets that are roughly similar in size with…

May 24, 2019 ·by Jeffrey Olmsted· 0

Scientists Found Out Why Super-Earth Exoplanets Orbit Very Close To Their Host Stars

The Universe is full of solar systems which are quite different from the one we live in, and that’s mostly because of the host stars of those planetary systems. While in our solar system Mercury is orbiting the Sun in…

May 13, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

Scientists Found Hundreds Of Earth-like Exoplanets Orbiting In The Habitable Zone

Since 1995 when the first planet outside our Solar System was discovered, researchers have found about 4,000 exoplanets. And there are more than 3,000 potential candidates. Last week, in a recent study issued in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from…

April 2, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0

New Exoplanets Discovered, Rising The Total To 4,001

Last Tuesday, on March 12th, an international group of astronomers at the Exoplanet Team, headed by Observatoire de Paris, announced that the total of the known planets outside the solar system reached 4,001. That wouldn’t have been possible without the…

March 16, 2019 ·by Vadim Caraiman· 0