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Usually NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is associated with making observations of incredibly dim objects frequently hundreds of millions or even billions of light years away. […]
Over the past couple of decades, the pace of exoplanet discoveries has accelerated with literally thousands of extrasolar planets currently known. Today there are numerous databases […]
While stories of exoplanet discoveries made by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have dominated the media in recent years, there are many other surveys for extrasolar planets taking […]
In recent years, the media has been filled with news about the thousands of extrasolar planets found by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft as it monitors the brightness […]
While NASA’s recent announcement of the discovery of seven Earth-size exoplanets found orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star known as TRAPPIST-1 was exciting enough, the fact […]
When hearing claims about the potential habitability of newly discovered exoplanets, the old adage “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is not […]
Before the flood of discoveries resulting from NASA’s Kepler mission, the majority of extrasolar planets were found by analyzing precision radial velocity measurements of stars. Periodic […]
Now that we are at the end of 2016, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
Announcements about the discovery of habitable extrasolar planets have regularly dominated the news from the astronomical community over the last several years. This naturally reflects the […]
The nearby star system of α Centauri, with its pair of Sun-like stars 4.37 light years away and a distant red dwarf companion, for decades has […]
The primary objective of NASA’s Kepler mission is to determine how common rocky planets are in the habitable zone with the ability to detect Earth-size planets […]
The main objective of NASA’s Kepler mission and the primary driver of its design was to find Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits around Sun-like stars – […]
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