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Frontier Adds Recently-Discovered Exoplanet System to Elite: Dangerous
Earlier this week, NASA announced that it had discovered seven Earth-like exoplanets, all orbiting the same star, which could all potentially support life. The dwarf star system, dubbed Trappist-1, is now been added to the latest update of space adventure game Elite: Dangerous. As chance would have it, though, instead…
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NASA Discovers Seven Earth-Like Exoplanets
US astronautics organisation NASA has announced that it has found seven exoplanets orbiting a single star which are of of comparable size to Earth; three of the planets have orbits within what is known as the Goldilocks zone – which means possessing an orbit which may be capable of sustaining…
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NASA to Make Exoplanet Announcement on February 22
On February 22, Wednesday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Stanrdard Time/6:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time, NASA is set to announce their latest exoplanet discovery; that is discovery of planets beyond our solar system. Using the Kepler telescope, NASA has been searching deep into the cosmos in search of thousands of exoplanet…
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Kepler Space Telescope Recovered from Emergency Mode
It was recently reported that the deep space telescope, Kepler had run into trouble and had forced itself to enter its emergency mode. Thankfully the planet-hunting spacecraft has since returned to a stable state. NASA’s Kepler team engineers were able to direct the communications array aboard the craft towards Earth and…
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Planet Hunting Spacecraft Kepler Enters Emergency Mode
NASA engineers have raised a mission emergency in regards to the exoplanet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, which has unexpectedly entered its emergency mode 75 million miles from Earth. This mode is the lowest level of operation for the craft and worryingly, also consumes the most fuel while in it. The last time…
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New Exoplanet Hunting Instrument Being Developed by NASA
NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently been constructing a team of astronomers as part of a project to construct a powerful new exoplanet-hunting tool. The selection process involved a national competition, with the team chosen to be led by Penn State University assistant professor Suvrath Mahadevan. The next…
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NASA Discovers ‘Super-Earth’ Exoplanet With an Atmosphere
Astronomers from NASA and ESA have, for the first time, been able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet that is classified as a ‘Super-Earth’. Exoplanet 55 Cancri e, which is located around 40 light-years from Earth was observed by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and found…
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New Telescope Technology Could Allow Us to See Alien Life within 20 Years
There is a lot of the solar system that remains to be seen and NASA are working hard to take a real close look at what is out there. A panel convened recently to discuss future projects that include incredibly powerful telescopes, which would be capable of viewing planets in…
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International Astronomical Union (IAU) Planet-Naming Contest Opening Up
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) will open up exoplanet naming contests starting next year, in an effort to cut off the complicated names following the once-strict naming guidelines. Instead of having the next OGLE235-MOA53 b exoplanet, other suitable – and potentially amusing – names could be up for grabs. It’s a…
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