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How Scientists Use Extreme Physics to Explore Saturn’s Rain, Neptune’s Diamonds

Kimberly M.S. Cartier 25/06/2020

For more than half a century, dynamic compression experiments have...

51 Pegasi b, atmosphere, brown dwarf, CRIRES, Doppler spectroscopy, ELODIE spectrograph, Ignas Snellen, orbital velocity, pegasean planets, Proxima Centauri, radial velocity, roaster planets, Spectroscopy, Vasudevan Mukunth, Very Large Telescope, Wolf 1061, Didier Queloz, Michel Mayor, James Peebles, Nobel Prize for Physics, physics Nobel Prize, exoplanets, grand tack model, nice model, planetary migration, NASA Kepler telescope, radial velocity, Doppler spectroscopy, hot Jupiters, pegasean planets, main-sequence stars,

The Exoplanet That Changed How We See the Solar System, and the Universe

Vasudevan Mukunth 08/10/2019

The Nobel Prize for Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor...

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...

exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, Mars, Proxima Centauri, red-dwarf stars, solar flare, SpaceX, terminator, tidal locking, TRAPPIST-1, twilight zone, Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph

What’re the Possibilities for Life Around the Universe’s Most Common Stars?

Jatan Mehta 13/10/2018

When all the Sun-like stars have died in few...

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via Reuters/Files

Where Does India’s First Exoplanet Discovery Fit In?

Jatan Mehta 20/09/2018

It is important to remember that K2-236b was discovered...

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via Reuters/Files

NASA’s Newest Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Set for Launch in Florida

Joey Roulette 16/04/2018

The Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is set...

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‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ to Grace the Sky Today

Tim O'Brien 31/01/2018

A total lunar eclipse will coincide with a 'blue...