White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected
Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
What Is NASA's Pandora Mission? All You Need To Know
NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...
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Even more planets may be hiding in Kepler's fields
Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets—almost half of the total—in its almost 10 years of operation. However ...
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NASA’s ‘most prolific planet hunter so far’ — the story of the Kepler Space Telescope
In the case of Kepler, the team did. The mirror was moved by a mere 40 micrometres and the images sharpened. And so, the mission got to work. Whereas it was a long wait to detect an exoplanet with ...
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Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence for Astronomy
LOCATION The Davie Postdoctoral Fellowship is tenable at the SETI Institute Headquarters in Mountain View, California or the ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
“That planet shouldn’t be there.” Today we have confirmed about 4,000 exoplanets. The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was to see ...