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...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
..., and with an abundance of liquid water on its surface, Earth is a planet like no other that we know of so far. It stands to reason then... 20 to 70 billion years and it might give orbiting planets a better chance to establish life say the team. After...
