According to a group of top NASA scientists, a forthcoming telescope will eventually help them to precisely detect any other form of life in our Universe. Thanks to data collected by the Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009, scientists now believe that nearly every star in our galaxy has at least one planet circling it. They want to prove the existence of alien life. Therefore the James … [Read more...]
NASA’s Kepler discovers 715 new planets outside solar system
NASA's Kepler mission, a space observatory launched by the space agency to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, has announced the discovery of 715 new planets. According to NASA, these newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much similar to the solar system. Nearly 95 per cent of these planets, outside our solar system, are smaller than Neptune, … [Read more...]
New Research Shows How Circumbinary Planets Like Tatooine Form
Researchers at the University of Bristol claim that they have studied into real world counterparts i.e. Kepler-34(AB) b, of the fictional Star Wars planet Tatooine. Kepler-34(AB) b, a Saturn-sized gas giant discovered in 2012 by NASA's Kepler mission, is a circumbinary planet. Circumbinary planets are those planets that orbit two stars. They have been a topic of much scientific conjecture as well … [Read more...]