NASA confirms over 5,000 exoplanets outside our solar system
- 22-Mar-2022
NASA has confirmed the existence of over 5,000 exoplanets beyond our solar system, which include numerous ‘hot Jupiters’, ‘super-Earths and ‘mini Neptunes’, Daily Mail reported. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has added 65 more exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archive, which brings the total to 5,005. The announcement has been made 30 […]
Astronomers discover Earth-like planet just 11 light years away
- 16-Nov-2017
A temperate planet has been discovered only 11 light-years from Earth by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) , the foremost intergovernmental astronomy organization in Europe. A team working with ESO’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile has found that the red dwarf star Ross 128 is orbited by […]
NASA’s Kepler discovers more than 104 new exoplanets
- 19-Jul-2016
WASHINGTON: An international team of researchers announced Monday the discovery of 104 new planets outside our solar system, including four that could have Earth-like, rocky surfaces.
NASA says 1284 new planets found by Kepler telescope
- 11-May-2016
MIAMI: NASA on Tuesday announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of known exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope.