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When we corrected the star's parameters, the sizes of its planets dropped, and we realized the outermost one was about the size of Earth and in the habitable zone, additionally, in 11 months of data we saw no flares from the star, which improves the chances TOI 700 d is habitable and makes it easier to model its atmospheric and surface conditions.

Emily Gilbert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Ive been looking at the matrix of primitive meteorites, the material that holds the structure together, the meteorite in question dates to roughly 4.6 billion years ago, when the Sun was born and our Solar System formed. The matrix of these meteorites is therefore thought to be the starting material from which all the planets formed.

Epifanio Vaccaro

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Space missions have found evidence that icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn might also have similarly alkaline hydrothermal vents in their seas, while we have never seen any evidence of life on those moons, if we want to find life on other planets or moons, studies like ours can help us decide where to look.

Nick Lane

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The more we find commonalities between planets made in our solar system and those around other stars, the more the odds are enhanced that the Earth is not unusual, the more Earth-like planets, the greater the odds for life as we understand it.

Edward Young

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The study of exoplanets is perhaps the most vibrant field of astronomy, we now know that most stars are orbited by retinues of planets; there may be a billion planets in our galaxy resembling the Earth.

Martin Rees

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets, they play a crucial role in helping us determine how our Solar System's planets formed and evolved.

Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the Solar System's youth, the Sun was surrounded by a rotating disk of gas and dust from which the planets were born. It is believed that a similar gas-and-dust disk surrounded Saturn during its formation, the fact that these newly discovered moons were able to continue orbiting Saturn after their parent moons broke apart indicates that these collisions occurred after the planet formation process was mostly complete and the disks were no longer a factor.

Scott Sheppard

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Atlantic rainforest is one of the planets most threatened biomes, more than 90% of it was deforested, what is left is very fragmented.

Luis Paulo Ferraz

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We had the opportunity to get a close flyby with Voyager 2, because of the planetary alignment when The Voyager probes launched in 1977, the four giant outer planets were all aligned on the same side of the sun, so we could go from one to the next to the next. It was a really great opportunity.

Suzanne Dodd

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We need to develop an orbiter for each of those planets, at Uranus, the five major moons are very different. They have unique geological history, so we need to understand how they were formed or captured. Uranus has a rotational pole that is tipped on its side more than the Earth, so we need an understanding of why that happened. At Neptune, there are a great amount of features in atmosphere similar to Jupiter and Saturn. And Neptune's moon Triton is of interest because of the methane geysers on it.

Suzanne Dodd

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have so much to learn still about the moon, which then not only tells us about other planets in the solar system but about the Earth itself, lastly, its exciting.

Paul Hayne

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I am like the sun, shining over all, yet no man dare to come directly into my atmosphere. I am like the rain when it falls, its not on one man's doorstep. men will seek to go to other planets, but never to my face. jah almighty did warn-no man cometh to the father but by me. my reggae, ordained by jah, is all those mystical truths.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Understanding how volcanism works on other planets lets us understand how the whole solar system formed. So if we want to know how we went from a giant ball of dust to nine planets orbiting around the sun... this is how we're going to do it; studies like this, on rocks like this.

Ryan Zeigler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you want to understand how the volcanoes on Earth are going to erupt and in what timescale they're going to erupt on, studying rocks from other planets will help you actually learn about that more.

Ryan Zeigler

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This gives us the opportunity, by understanding the moon, to understand all these other worlds as well, this bombardment that's happening to the early moon...it's happening to all the planets.

Bill Bottke

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

MARS MAY HAVE HOSTED LIFE EARLIER THAN EARTH DID, STUDY SAYS Joshua Schlieder, a co-author of the study and an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard, said that not all planets that orbit stars are identical, highlighting the differences between Earth and Venus. We still have many questions about why Earth became habitable and Venus did not.

Joshua Schlieder

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I can imagine really exciting planets out there where you would have hydrates forming and then floating up in the ocean [forming] icebergs of natural gas.

Ann Cook

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The diffuse ISM can be considered as the starting point for the chemical processes that ultimately give rise to planets and life, so fully identifying its contents provides information on the ingredients available to create stars and planets.

Martin Cordiner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The EU uses up almost 20 percent of the Earth's bio-capacity although it comprises only 7 percent of the world population, in other words, 2.8 planets would be needed if everyone consumed at the rate of the average EU resident. This is well above the world average which is approximately 1.7 planets.

The WWF report

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For stars that are very close by and very bright, we expected to find up to a couple dozen Earth-sized planets, and here we are -- this would be our first one, and it's a milestone for TESS. It sets the path for finding smaller planets around even smaller stars, and those planets may potentially be habitable.

Diana Dragomir

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We don't know how many planets TESS will find around the hundreds of stars in our catalog or whether they will be habitable, but the odds are in our favor. Some studies indicate that there are many rocky planets in the habitable zone of cool stars, like the ones in our catalog. We're excited to see what worlds we'll find.

Lisa Kaltenegger

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Life could exist on all sorts of worlds, but the kind we know can support life is our own, so it makes sense to first look for Earth-like planets, this catalog is important for TESS because anyone working with the data wants to know around which stars we can find the closest Earth-analogs.

Lisa Kaltenegger

Found on CNN
5 years ago

One of the mysteries arising from the study of exoplanets is that we see systems where the planets are misaligned, even though they are born in a flat, circular disk, maybe a cosmic tsunami hit these systems and rearranged everything about them, but we havent had proof.

Paul Kalas

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

At that time, planets were beginning to grow, starting as dust grains and becoming pebbles, rocks, mountains and finally proto-planets, there were lots of collision between them. This study may help understand how they survived these collisions.

Albert Zijlstra

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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