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TESS Mission Helps Uncover Trio of Planets With One Possibly Habitable World
Ground-based observations following up on the discovery of a small planet by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed two additional planets in the same system, one of which is located far enough from its star to be potentially habitable.
Read more...Effort To Rename Next-Generation Telescope For Vera Rubin Advances House
The House approved a bill to name the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in honor of late Carnegie DTM scientist Vera Rubin.
Read more...Diamonds Reveal How Continents Are Stabilized, Key to Earth's Habitability
New research by a group of geoscientists from Carnegie, the Gemological Institute of America, and the University of Alberta demonstrates that diamonds can be used to reveal how a buoyant section of mantle beneath some of the continents became thick enough to provide long-term stability.
Read more...Cometary Surprise Found Inside Meteorite
An ancient sliver of the building blocks from which comets formed was discovered encased inside a meteorite like an insect in amber by a Carnegie-led research team.
Read more...TESS Finds Its First Earth-Sized Planet
A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world.
Read more...Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed
A team of astronomers including DTM's Scott Sheppard discovered the first known Solar System object detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than the Earth-Sun distance.
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