March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... would argue that the very utilitarian thinking that proposes we simply ignore our impact on our home planet is de-humanising precisely because it would have us treat ourselves as just another invasive species, stripped of all responsibilities simply...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... exoworlds will be found as TESS now turns its attention to the Northern Hemisphere to complete the most comprehensive planet-hunting expedition ever undertaken. As wonderful as this news is, TESS is not the only one making substantial discoveries...
18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... these smaller counterparts. Indeed, both of the two known planets in the GJ 832 system were detected by the radial...University of Texas, state in their research paper that the planet was found using numerical simulations from data obtained from GJ ...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
...118, 49, 677, and 5700 days, and minimum masses of 0.63, 0.17, 0.1, 0.05, 0.12 and 0.38 (compared with Jupiter) respectively. All of the planets were found via the radial-velocity method. This method is often to referred to as the ‘wobble’ method and...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
... line between super-Earth (rocky) and sub-Neptune (somewhat gassy) planets; planet b has a radii of 1.64, planet c is 1.29 and planet d is 2.08. Using their Planet Finding Spectrograph (PFS) to monitor GJ 9827, the team which is headed by Johanna...
18 May 2016
Multi-planet system hints at extra planet in its cometary belt
... a boost for astronomers hoping to understand how planets and debris discs interact. "This data really ...with ESO's Very Large Telescope, shows the location of the known planets in this system in relation to a graphical representation of the central...
