Astronomers believe the most likely place to find life in the galaxy is on super-Earths, like Kepler-69c, seen in this artist’s rendering. (Image credit: NASA Ames/JPL-CalTech) This article was originally published on The conversation. (opens in a new tab) The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Editorials and Perspectives. Astronomers now routinely discover …
Astronomers now regularly discover planets orbiting stars outside the solar system – they are called exoplanets. But in the summer of 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars. A planet is 30% larger than Earth and orbits its …
Astronomers now regularly discover planets orbiting stars outside the solar system – they are called exoplanets. But in the summer of 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in the habitable zones of their parent stars. A planet is 30% larger than Earth and revolves around …
TESS photometry of LP 890-9. For each of the four sectors, the 2-minute data points (in gray) were grouped into 30-minute intervals to produce the black dots, with error bars corresponding to the root mean square of the uncertainties of the points in the bins. The transits of LP 890-9 b and c are indicated …
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A red dwarf star just 105 light-years away could host at least one habitable world. In close orbit around the cool, dim star, scientists have found and confirmed two rocky exoplanets – one comfortably within a distance of the star known as the habitable zone. Follow-up observations will need to be made to further determine …
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