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China Plans World's First Habitable Planet Search With Space Telescope
Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's Planet Hunting Telescope Joins Search for Intelligent Aliens
Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.
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NASA Says Planet Hunting Telescope Kepler Has Woken Up Again
In July, NASA placed the spacecraft, with 2,650 confirmed planets, in a hibernation-like state in preparation to download the science data collected in its latest observation campaign.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope
NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).
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Rocket-Control Glitch Delays Launch Of NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite
An 11th-hour technical glitch prompted SpaceX to postpone its planned launch on Monday of a new NASA space telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system, delaying for at least 48 hours a quest to expand astronomers' known inventory of so-called exoplanets.
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10 Things To Know About Earth-Like Planets Found In Nearby Solar System
US space agency NASA has announced that scientists researching outer space have found the existence of another 'solar system' - seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in galaxy 40 light years away - opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond. A press release from the space agency said the Spitzer Space Telescope has...
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Study: Maybe We Can't Find Aliens Because They've All Died Already
The hunt for extraterrestrial life is one of humanity's most exciting endeavors. The pieces are all falling into place: We're finding more and more planets outside of our own solar system, and soon the James Webb Telescope will give us unprecedented looks at these distant worlds.
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Alien-hunting telescope may be ready in next five years
The telescope would be sensitive enough to spot cities or other signs of aliens for planets as far as 60 to 70 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope Kepler's days may be over
NASA's first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday.
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China Plans World's First Habitable Planet Search With Space Telescope
Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt for habitable Earth-like planets outside the solar system, about 32 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's Planet Hunting Telescope Joins Search for Intelligent Aliens
Scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have teamed up with Breakthrough Listen, an extraterrestrial intelligence search founded in 2015 by Russian billionaire and internet pioneer Yuri Milner.
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NASA Says Planet Hunting Telescope Kepler Has Woken Up Again
In July, NASA placed the spacecraft, with 2,650 confirmed planets, in a hibernation-like state in preparation to download the science data collected in its latest observation campaign.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Successfully Launches NASA's TESS Planet Hunting Telescope
NASA's Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51pm EDT on Wednesday (4:21am IST on Thursday).
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Rocket-Control Glitch Delays Launch Of NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite
An 11th-hour technical glitch prompted SpaceX to postpone its planned launch on Monday of a new NASA space telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system, delaying for at least 48 hours a quest to expand astronomers' known inventory of so-called exoplanets.
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10 Things To Know About Earth-Like Planets Found In Nearby Solar System
US space agency NASA has announced that scientists researching outer space have found the existence of another 'solar system' - seven Earth-like planets orbiting a small star in galaxy 40 light years away - opening up the most promising hunting ground so far for life beyond. A press release from the space agency said the Spitzer Space Telescope has...
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Study: Maybe We Can't Find Aliens Because They've All Died Already
The hunt for extraterrestrial life is one of humanity's most exciting endeavors. The pieces are all falling into place: We're finding more and more planets outside of our own solar system, and soon the James Webb Telescope will give us unprecedented looks at these distant worlds.
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Alien-hunting telescope may be ready in next five years
The telescope would be sensitive enough to spot cities or other signs of aliens for planets as far as 60 to 70 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's planet-hunting telescope Kepler's days may be over
NASA's first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday.
