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Budget-oriented Twinkle space telescope could study exoplanets on the cheap
2015-09-01 21:59:57| Extremetech
Maybe we don't need to spend billions to catch a glimpse of the weather on distant worlds. A new telescope would search the heavens and atmospheres for a fraction the cost of Hubble or the upcoming James Webb Telescope.
Astrophysicists are now forecasting the weather on exoplanets
2015-05-15 15:40:01| Extremetech
Predicting the weather on other planets is difficult to begin with, and exponentially tougher on planets outside our solar system -- but a team of researchers have begun to do just that.
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Exoplanets visible light spectrum measured for the first time
2015-04-28 15:31:01| Extremetech
The spectrum measurement was courtesy of the HARPS planet-hunting machine and ESO's La Silla Observatory 3.6-meter telescope in Chile.
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NASA forms unprecedented coalition to search for alien life on exoplanets
2015-04-22 20:23:14| Extremetech
The agency has announced it's bringing together experts from a variety of scientific fields in a new coalition to search for alien life on planets outside our solar system.
Kepler, seeker of Earth-like exoplanets, is broken and NASA isnt sure if it can be fixed
2013-05-16 17:00:06| Extremetech
Back in March of 2009, the Kepler space telescope launched into the universe with the goal of identifying Earth-like planets. Over the years, it did manage that mission, occasionally finding a planet located in the habitable zone orbiting its star. Now, NASA is reporting that the space telescope is suffering from a detrimental ailment, and might be dead in the proverbial space water.