Scorching 6,800C alien world is ‘hotter than the Sun’ as Nasa says it ‘could be another circle of hell’
The planet is orbiting the star Kepler-70 in the constellation Cygnus. This star is too faint to be seen with the naked eye – ...
Alien life is out there. Can AI find it?
It’s the ultimate game of find a needle in the haystack. One NASA scientist is betting on AI to help expedite the search ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at ...
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Alien world? A new solar system with 7 planets discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope
The central star of the Kepler-385 system closely resembles our Sun but is about 10% larger and 5% hotter. Among its seven planets, the two innermost ones, only slightly larger than Earth ...
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A Third Of The Most Common Exoplanets May Host Life, Say Scientists
their surfaces, argues a new research paper. There are hundreds of millions of planets around other stars ... looks at data collected by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft between 2009 and 2018 on 150 ...
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Forerunner K2 humanoid robot can carry 33 lb in each dexterous hand
Despite its sequential name, Shanghai Kepler Robotics says that the new Forerunner K2 actually represents the fifth generation model. As you might expect, the latest humanoid has been treated to ...
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Astrophysics of Planet Formation
He provides a self-contained account of the modern theory of planet formation and ... to include observational results from NASA's Kepler mission, ALMA observations and the JUNO mission to Jupiter, ...
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New funding for Kepler and Wyvern headline busy month in Canadian space tech
It’s been an eventful month for Canadian space tech as companies like Wyvern, Kepler Communications, Mission Control, and Volta Space Technologies prepare for take off with new partnerships and rounds ...
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Scorching 6,800C alien world is ‘hotter than the Sun’ as Nasa says it ‘could be another circle of hell’
The scorching 6,800C planet is called Kepler-70b (or KOI-55b), and it's just over 4,000 light-years from Earth. The planet is believed to have once been a gas giant – but evaporation has ...