A high school senior used NASA Kepler data to uncover where more Earth-like planets may still be hidingA high school student has made a significant discovery using old space data. Ana Humphrey re-examined information from the Kepler Space Tel...
20 May, 2026, 04.28 PM IST
How a 17-year-old NASA intern spotted an odd signal in telescope data and found a planet with two sunsDuring a summer internship at NASA, high school junior Wolf Cukier discovered a planet orbiting two stars. While analyzing data from the TE...
20 May, 2026, 02.11 PM IST
A simple astronomy program led two U.S. high school students to help discover four exoplanetsIn an inspiring display of youthful ingenuity, two American high school students have teamed up to publish a groundbreaking scientific pape...
19 May, 2026, 04.11 PM IST
NASA has discovered planets so strange they sound completely impossible: From worlds that rain molten glass to giant “marshmallow” planetsScientists are discovering strange new planets beyond our solar system. These worlds defy old ideas about how planets form and what they lo...
12 May, 2026, 07.02 PM IST
NASA unveils new space telescope to give 'atlas of the universe'NASA has revealed the Roman space telescope. This new instrument will search the universe for planets beyond our solar system. It will also...
22 Apr, 2026, 02.24 PM IST
NASA confirms alien planet count hits 6,000, and the strangest worlds are still aheadNASA has confirmed the existence of 6,000 exoplanets. This milestone highlights the diversity of planetary systems. Scientists use transit ...
21 Sep, 2025, 01.22 PM IST
NASA finds 'Waterworld with a boiling ocean' on exoplanet. Know if life too has been found thereAn 'hycean' or a world of water under a hydrogen-rich atmosphere has been found on a sub-Neptune distant exoplanet. It contains an ocean of...
08 Mar, 2024, 09.52 PM IST
Not just Moon, Chandrayaan-3 to also help Isro find other Earth-like exoplanetsThe scientific instrument SHAPE, aboard the Chandrayaan-3, has been successfully orbiting the Moon for 52 days and collecting valuable data...
28 Sep, 2023, 01.08 PM IST
NASA's James Webb Telescope discovers potentialy habitable world over 8 times bigger than EarthUsing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet located millions of light years away that coul...
14 Sep, 2023, 05.10 PM IST
Distant star TOI-700 has two potentially habitable planets orbiting it - making it an excellent candidate in the search for lifeWe are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI-700 e. TOI-700 e is just over 100 light years from Earth - t...
09 Mar, 2023, 11.19 AM IST
- NASA's Kepler discovers nearly 100 new exoplanets
London, Feb 17 (IANS) An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of nearly 100 new exoplanets -- planets located outs...
17 Feb, 2018, 02.32 PM IST
- This is how Google AI helped NASA discover two exoplanets
Washington, Dec 15 (IANS) The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) approach from Google researchers helped NASA discover ...
15 Dec, 2017, 09.42 AM IST
- NASA's Kepler probe uses Google AI for latest discovery
Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) NASA has said its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope made its latest discovery using machine learning from Goo...
11 Dec, 2017, 03.02 PM IST
No pending announcement about discovery of alien life: NASALast week, the hacking group Anonymous posted a video on YouTube suggesting that NASA is about to announce the discovery of life beyond Ear...
27 Jun, 2017, 01.03 PM IST
- NASA's Webb telescope to search for signs of alien life
Washington, June 16 (IANS) Finding signs of life on the earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system and on Saturn's moon Enceladus are amo...
18 Jun, 2017, 12.41 PM IST
NASA's Kepler mission discovers over 1,200 new planetsAnalysis was performed on the Kepler space telescope's July 2015 planet candidate catalogue, which identified 4,302 potential planets.
11 May, 2016, 01.14 PM IST
NASA's Kepler mission discovers 'super-Earth'The discovery was confirmed with measurements taken by the HARPS-North spectrograph of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islan...
19 Dec, 2014, 06.38 PM IST