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NASA’s New Exoplanet Hunter Discovers Its First Planet Orbiting Two Stars

January 8, 2020 admin arxiv, discoveries, Earth-like planets, exoplanets, high school students, intern, nasa, Satellite, tech-science, tess

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:26:54 +0000

The TESS spacecraft spotted its first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a star, as well as its first circumbinary planet detection.

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New Oxygen-Hunting Technique Could Tell If Distant Planets Are ‘Alive or Not’

January 6, 2020 admin astrobiology, exoplanet, exoplanets, habitability, james webb space telescope, jwst, nasa, oxygen, planet, tech-science, trappist, TRAPPIST-1

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:28:30 +0000

“Oxygen is one of the most exciting molecules to detect because of its link with life, but we don’t know if life is the only cause of oxygen in an atmosphere.”