Astronomers find first compelling evidence for a moon outside our solar system0
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- October 5, 2018
New Neptune-sized exomoon candidate has been observed around a star some 8,000 light years away
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Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
Nasa finds solar system filled with as many planets as our own0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2017
Nasa has found an entire solar system with as many planets as our own.
New branch in family tree of exoplanets discovered0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 1, 2017
Since the mid-1990s, when the first planet around another sun-like star was discovered, astronomers have been amassing what is now a large collection of exoplanets—nearly 3,500 have been confirmed so far.
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