https://wordlesstech.com The future today in our amazing world Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:09:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 223030326 https://wordlesstech.com/18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered/ https://wordlesstech.com/18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered/#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 17:27:20 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=159843 Astronomers using a new method to find small planets orbiting nearby stars, which previous surveys had overlooked, discovered 18 Earth-sized exoplanets. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University of Göttingen, and the Sonneberg Observatory have discovered 18 Earth-sized planets beyond the solar system. The worlds are so]]> https://wordlesstech.com/18-earth-sized-exoplanets-discovered/feed/ 0 159843 https://wordlesstech.com/planet-hunting-kepler-space-telescope-retired/ https://wordlesstech.com/planet-hunting-kepler-space-telescope-retired/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 08:11:25 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=155012 NASA ‘retires’ planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, that discovered 2,600 exoplanets. After nine years in deep space collecting data that revealed our night sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets – more planets even than stars – NASA’s Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided]]> https://wordlesstech.com/planet-hunting-kepler-space-telescope-retired/feed/ 0 155012 https://wordlesstech.com/nearly-100-new-exoplanets-have-been-discovered/ https://wordlesstech.com/nearly-100-new-exoplanets-have-been-discovered/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 08:58:22 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=148772 Nearly 100 new exoplanets orbiting stars outside our solar system have been discovered. An international team of scientists as part of the Kepler K2 mission, has confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets. Above, artist impression of exoplanets.  Credit NASA Study lead author Andrew Mayo, a PhD student at the Technical University of Denmark, said: “We started]]> https://wordlesstech.com/nearly-100-new-exoplanets-have-been-discovered/feed/ 0 148772 https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-a-new-solar-system-as-big-as-ours/ https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-a-new-solar-system-as-big-as-ours/#comments Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:56:57 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=147290 With the discovery of an eighth planet, the Kepler-90 system is the first to tie with our solar system in number of planets. The discovery was made using artificial intelligence from Google and data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, which will help find habitable planets. Our solar system now is tied for most number of]]> https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-a-new-solar-system-as-big-as-ours/feed/ 1 147290 https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-new-%ce%b5xoplanets-to-destroy-after-our-own/ https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-new-%ce%b5xoplanets-to-destroy-after-our-own/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2017 17:34:18 +0000 https://wordlesstech.com/?p=140379 Astronomers discovered 10 near-Earth size exoplanets orbiting in their star’s habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where liquid water could pool on the surface of a rocky planet. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates. This is the]]> https://wordlesstech.com/nasa-finds-new-%ce%b5xoplanets-to-destroy-after-our-own/feed/ 1 140379 https://wordlesstech.com/earth-like-exoplanets-weve-discovered/ https://wordlesstech.com/earth-like-exoplanets-weve-discovered/#respond Mon, 08 Aug 2016 10:10:38 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=129833 A new catalog of Kepler exoplanets in Habitable Zone of their star. NASA Kepler mission discovered thousands of new exoplanets. The main goal of the mission is to determine the terrestrial-size planets within the Habitable Zone (HZ) of their host stars. Above, a chart of some exoplanets near the Habitable Zone (click to enlarge).  ]]> https://wordlesstech.com/earth-like-exoplanets-weve-discovered/feed/ 0 129833 https://wordlesstech.com/new-planet-orbiting-two-suns-largest-discovered/ https://wordlesstech.com/new-planet-orbiting-two-suns-largest-discovered/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2016 09:05:12 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=128365 If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest exoplanet yet discovered around a double-star system. Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, identified the new]]> https://wordlesstech.com/new-planet-orbiting-two-suns-largest-discovered/feed/ 0 128365 https://wordlesstech.com/kepler-announces-largest-collection-planets-ever-discovered/ https://wordlesstech.com/kepler-announces-largest-collection-planets-ever-discovered/#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 06:57:54 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=127284 NASA’s Kepler space telescope mission has just verified 1,284 new planets, doubling its haul in largest exoplanet discovery ever. 2,325 exoplanets and counting… The single largest finding of planets, beyond our solar system, to date! The above artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.  Credits: NASA/W. Stenzel Ellen]]> https://wordlesstech.com/kepler-announces-largest-collection-planets-ever-discovered/feed/ 0 127284 https://wordlesstech.com/somethings-weird-about-an-alien-megastructure-star/ https://wordlesstech.com/somethings-weird-about-an-alien-megastructure-star/#respond Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:28:34 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=122924 Astronomers believe there really is something weird happening around KIC 8462852 star, that’s 1480 light-years away. Described by scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations, as the “most mysterious star in our galaxy,” KIC 8462852, located 1480 light-years away, is monitored constantly from the Kepler space telescope. Kepler monitored more than 150,000 stars, but this particular]]> https://wordlesstech.com/somethings-weird-about-an-alien-megastructure-star/feed/ 0 122924 https://wordlesstech.com/aliens-might-just-not-have-yet-to-be-born/ https://wordlesstech.com/aliens-might-just-not-have-yet-to-be-born/#respond Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:29:28 +0000 http://wordlesstech.com/?p=119768 According to a new theoretical study, most Earth-like exoplanets have yet to be born. Based on an assessment of data collected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the planet-hunting Kepler space observatory, the new theory claims: “Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe.” Above: An artist’s impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that]]> https://wordlesstech.com/aliens-might-just-not-have-yet-to-be-born/feed/ 0 119768