Einstein Provides for Another Exoplanet Discovery
They’re calling Kepler-76B "Einstein’s Planet" because of the new tools used to discover it. From what they’ve figured out, however, Einstein might not be thrilled by the name.
They’re calling Kepler-76B "Einstein’s Planet" because of the new tools used to discover it. From what they’ve figured out, however, Einstein might not be thrilled by the name.
The Kepler space telescope has done an epic job of finding and tracking potential habitable planets. A new glitch, however, means trouble for the spacecraft.
The Kepler-37 planetary system is only 10 light years away from Earth, and features a variety of planets, including one that is almost the same size as our home. But it’s at the wrong end of the Goldilocks Zone.
The Kepler spacecraft scans the stars, looking for signs of habitable, Earthlike planets. A recently discovered Jupiter-size planet, however, turned out to be something far more surprising.
European astronomers said they had discovered a planet similar to Earth in size.
Astronomers have developed a technique for probing the distant planets atmospheres that could support life outside Earth signs.
A new study shows that Earth size planets orbiting with in the red dwarf “habitable zones” more like Venus than Earth.
The more we learn about the planetary systems of other stars the more it becomes obvious that planetary formation theory is clearly totally unfalsifiable.