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
How Artificial Intelligence Is Rewriting Planet HuntingAstronomers are now leveraging artificial intelligence to sift through vast amounts of exoplanet data, a task impossible for humans alone. ...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.36 PM IST
The Search for an Exomoon: Have We Finally Found One?Astronomers are actively searching for exomoons, the elusive counterparts to our Solar System's moons, with promising candidates like the o...
25 Feb, 2026, 04.50 PM IST
Indian researchers discover new exoplanet TOI-6038A b. Here's all about itIndian researchers have discovered a dense sub-Saturn exoplanet, TOI-6038A b, which is 78.5 times the mass of Earth. This exoplanet orbits ...
16 Feb, 2025, 10.26 AM IST
NASA close to probing alien atmospheres; Here's all you need to knowPandora, a small satellite, is set to study at least 20 known exoplanets to analyze their atmospheres for hazes, clouds, and water. This un...
09 Feb, 2025, 06.31 PM IST
Hydrogen Sulfide found outside our solar system for first time. Where has it been discovered and how important is it?Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope have found hydrogen sulfide on an exoplanet known as HD 189733b. It is near Jupiter ...
09 Jul, 2024, 09.55 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 planet-hunter satellite launched on SpaceX rocket
Washington, April 19 (IANS) NASA's next planet-hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess) successfully launched on a SpaceX F...
19 Apr, 2018, 10.52 AM IST
- Launch of NASA's next planet-hunting mission postponed
Washington, April 17 (IANS) NASA is now targeting Wednesday for the launch of its next planet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Sur...
17 Apr, 2018, 10.37 AM IST
- NASA's positive on next planet-hunting mission launch
Washington, April 15 (IANS) Meteorologists with the US Air Force 45th Space Wing have predicted an 80 per cent chance of favourable weather...
15 Apr, 2018, 02.02 PM IST
- NASA's next planet-hunting mission starts next week
Washington, April 12 (IANS) NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess aimed at detecting planets outside our solar system, is s...
12 Apr, 2018, 10.57 AM IST
'100 new planets discovered beyond our solar system'Mayo and his colleagues analyzed hundreds of signals of potential exoplanets to determine which signals were created by exoplanets and whic...
16 Feb, 2018, 01.13 PM IST
Google artificial intelligence helps NASA discover solar system like oursKepler-90i - a sizzling hot, rocky planet that orbits its star once every 14.4 days - was found using machine learning from Google to scour...
16 Dec, 2017, 01.20 AM 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 launches project to search for alien lifeGPI has already imaged two previously known exoplanets and disks of planetary debris orbiting young stars where planets recently formed.
28 Apr, 2015, 04.59 PM IST
NASA scientists join search for extraterrestrial lifeThe effort by NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is part of a broader push to identify Earth-like worlds.
20 Apr, 2015, 07.08 PM IST