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  NASA planet hunting probe 'TESS' shares first image

  Science | September 18, 2018 13:19 IST

  The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sent the images that were captured from its initial science orbit. It will spend 2 years monitoring 26 such sectors for 27 days each.

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  Kepler-80: The ‘alien solar system’ where one year is as long as a day on Earth

  World | July 25, 2016 17:24 IST

  Astronomers have discovered a bizarre ‘alien’ solar system that has planets orbiting its star so tightly that one of them has a year as along as a day on planet Earth.

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  Four of the 100 planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission could host life

  World | July 19, 2016 14:16 IST

  Data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has enabled scientists to discover a treasure trove of over 100 planets outside the solar system, some of which have the possibility of hosting life.

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  NASA probe discovers new planet orbiting two stars

  World | August 11, 2015 17:36 IST

  Washington:  NASA's Kepler mission has discovered a new planet orbiting two stars and located within its host stars' "habitable zone", the area around the stars in which life could potentially exist.The planet, known as Kepler-453b,

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  Ancient star with five Earth-size planets discovered

  World | January 28, 2015 10:40 IST

  London: After analysing over four years of data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft, a team of astronomers has discovered a star that is 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets."The findings show