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August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... Doppler effect, the same effect used by police radar guns to detect speeding cars. Figure 1: The sensitivity regions of the Kepler transit survey (in red) and the WFIRST exoplanet microlensing survey (in blue) are compared to the orbits of the...
April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...that will be 400 times larger than that covered by Kepler. Like Kepler, TESS will search for exoplanets by detecting the fractional dip in a star’s brightness as an orbiting exoplanet passes by, a technique known as the transit method. ... their host stars in 13 days or less; these are considered short orbital period exoplanets. Conversely, Kepler was adept at finding exoplanets with orbital periods from 10 days up to a few hundred days, a feature...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
Scientists using a neural network to search through the enormous Kepler dataset have found an eighth planet in a distant exoplanet solar system known as Kepler 90. This is the first system other than our own ...a human couldn’t. By scanning 15, 0000 previously-vetted signals from the Kepler exoplanet catalogue, the network ‘learned’ to detect what an actual transiting exoplanet signal looked like. Once completed, the researchers set the network to ...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... Located at 4.2 light years (40,000 billion km), Proxima Centauri b is almost an ideal destination - as far as exoplanets go. But while this distance may be small by astronomical standards, it remains utterly vast on the human scale. The...not a strict, definitive number for colonisation projects. Artist’s concept of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f, an exoplanet about 40 light years from Earth. Cows in space? Sending a ship laden with frozen embryos ...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... worlds around Sun-like stars is comparatively rare, due to the techniques used to find exoplanets. But by improving on an old detection method, a team of German and US scientists have now found a system that is the mirror... replica of our own host star. The detection of Kepler-160 is not new. It was discovered around ten years ago, followed by the confirmation of two exoplanets, called Kepler-160b and Kepler-160c, four years later. Both of these...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
... day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year looking for the tell-tale sign of a would be exoplanet. The technique Kepler uses is known as the transit method and it works by measuring the dip in star light as a planet ... to measure this slight dimming of starlight and therefore detect the presence of the transiting planet. So far, using this method, Kepler scientists have identified about 4700 exoplanet ‘candidates’ and have validated about 1000 of them ...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
...title – K2 – and 15 months after being reassigned to its new stellar target, Kepler had racked up its 1,000th confirmed exoplanet discovery. Kepler’s K2 mission comprised of 19 ‘campaigns,’ lasting around 80 days each. These new ...a detrending algorithm) to wade through the vast reams of information and locate would-be exoplanets. Of these 374 were detections that had not been discovered by prior searches. As these are planet candidates they ...
24 November 2021
Astronomers discover more than 350 possible new exoplanets
...around smaller, dimmer red dwarf stars instead. Dubbed K2, this “Second Light" mission lasted as long as Kepler’s first exoplanet hunt and bumped its count of surveyed stars up to more than 500,000. But, after nine years... and team have now created a “catalogue” that will soon be incorporated into NASA’s master exoplanet archive. “The catalog and planet detection algorithm that Jon [Zink] and the Scaling K2 team came devised is a major breakthrough...
19 November 2018
Kepler officially retires after receiving final "goodnight" commands
... working. As the spacecraft needs three functioning wheels to continally monitor a star’s brightness for signs of Earth-sized exoplanets, its field-of-view had to be switched roughly every three months to compensate for the mechanical glitch. The... come closer than a million miles to our planet. The baton will now be handed onto the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to pick up where Kepler left off.
