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La NASA confirmó el descubrimiento de 6.000 exoplanetas y anunció miles en espera de confirmación

La Administración Nacional de Aeronáutica y el Espacio (NASA) confirmó la detección de 6.000 exoplanetas, un hito relevante para la ciencia planetaria y la exploración cósmica.
Este avance, comunicado por la principal agencia espacial estadounidense, se alcanzó tras tres décadas de esfuerzos científicos y cooperación internacional. El registro, según la propia NASA, es resultado de un proceso de verificación continua en el que participan astrónomos de todo el mundo.
El conteo de exoplanetas incluye solo aquellos objetos celestes cuyas características y órbitas pudieron corroborarse de modo fehaciente. El organismo precisó que “ningún planeta se considera el número 6.000”, ya que el incremento de registros ocurre de manera escalonada y global. El Instituto de Ciencia de Exoplanetas de la NASA (NExScI), con sede en el Instituto de Tecnología de California (Caltech), se encarga de monitorear de manera permanente esta estadística.
La NASA define a los exoplanetas como aquellos planetas localizados fuera del Sistema Solar.
El descubrimiento del primero alrededor de una estrella similar al Sol tuvo lugar en 1995 y marcó el inicio de una búsqueda que evolucionó, lo que expandió el conocimiento astronómico de los sistemas planetarios. En años recientes, el ritmo de hallazgos aumentó: desde 2022 la cifra total de exoplanetas confirmados pasó de 5.000 a 6.000, lo que revela un progreso acelerado en materia de exploración.

Los científicos estiman que existen miles de millones de exoplanetas en la Vía Láctea, aunque muchos permanecen fuera del alcance de la tecnología actual.
En este sentido, la NASA sostiene que la mayoría de los exoplanetas detectados ha sido identificada a través del método de tránsito, que detecta la disminución temporal de luz de una estrella cuando un cuerpo planetario pasa frente a ella. Sólo una fracción, menor a cien casos, logró ser fotografiada directamente. El resto se clasifica como candidatos en espera de una confirmación adicional.
El proceso de validación requiere habitualmente observaciones de seguimiento, con telescopios complementarios y análisis estadísticos que reduzcan la posibilidad de falsos positivos. Por este motivo, la propia NASA reportó que existen más de 8.000 posibles exoplanetas pendientes de confirmación definitiva. Los datos y el catálogo actualizado están disponibles en el Archivo de Exoplanetas, gestionado por el NExScI.

Entre los instrumentos clave se destacan el Telescopio Espacial Kepler, responsable de encontrar miles de mundos durante su periodo operativo, y el satélite Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), diseñado específicamente para buscar exoplanetas mediante el método de tránsito estelar.
La agencia adelantó que futuras misiones, como la europea Gaia y el Telescopio Espacial Nancy Grace Roman, aportarán nuevos avances, especialmente a través de técnicas como la astrometría y la microlente gravitacional.
“La variedad de tipos de planetas que descubrimos brinda información sobre las condiciones bajo las cuales se puede formar un planeta y ayuda a estimar cuán comunes serían los planetas similares a la Tierra”, destacó Dawn Gelino, responsable del Programa de Exploración de Exoplanetas de la NASA. La diversidad hallada en las características físicas y orbitales –desde jupíteres calientes cercanos a su estrella, hasta planetas que orbitan sistemas binarios, sin estrella o a restos de estrellas muertas– ha superado las expectativas iniciales.

Uno de los retos medulares identificados por la NASA reside en el estudio de las atmósferas de exoplanetas.
El Telescopio Espacial James Webb ya logró analizar la composición química de más de un centenar de exoplanetas, aunque la observación directa y detallada de atmósferas en mundos del tamaño y la temperatura de la Tierra todavía depende de la creación de nuevas tecnologías. Hace falta bloquear de forma más eficiente el brillo de la estrella anfitriona para distinguir las señales de interés en planetas alejados y tenues.
El registro histórico incluye aproximadamente 700 planetas rocosos, siete de naturaleza aún desconocida y una creciente lista de tipos planetarios inéditos. Según las proyecciones de la propia NASA, el ritmo de descubrimientos se mantendrá e incluso puede acelerarse gracias a las mejoras instrumentales y a la cooperación internacional.
El desafío pendiente reside en localizar más planetas semejantes a la Tierra y comprender si en alguno de ellos se dan condiciones aptas para el surgimiento de la vida.
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GOP rips FISA court for tapping ex-Biden ‘disinformation’ lawyer to advise on surveillance

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Republican lawmakers called it «insane» that the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court appointed to a key advisory panel a lawyer with past ties to the Biden administration’s controversial Disinformation Governance Board.
Judges on the FISC appointed Jennifer Daskal this month to serve as an amicus curiae, meaning Daskal is now among a small group of lawyers designated to advise the secretive court, which approves warrants for federal authorities to surveil targets for foreign intelligence purposes. The GOP lawmakers say Daskal’s history with the disinformation board raises worries about her ability to discern whether warrants are appropriate.
«The same person who helped to build a board to censor American speech now advises judges on how to protect American liberties,» House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital in a statement. «That’s ridiculous — and exactly why Congress must continue our oversight.»
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, looks on during a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., echoed Jordan’s concerns, saying Daskal’s appointment was «insane» and calling for reforms to the FISC.
Schmitt shared a video of himself on X questioning Daskal during a hearing about what he called the Biden administration’s «censorship enterprise,» referencing Daskal’s role in aiming to dispel what the administration viewed as inaccurate information about COVID-19 masks and vaccines and information about election security.
FISC proceedings are classified and «ex parte,» meaning a judge reviews the federal government’s warrant application and the target of the warrant has no awareness of the proceedings. A judge reviewing the application can, however, turn to an amicus curiae to present counterpoints to the government’s application, meaning Daskal is among a handful of lawyers who could be tapped to argue against allowing the government to wiretap a person’s phones or otherwise surveil them.

The logo of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is seen at the Los Angeles Federal Building after a news conference to provide an update on the investigation into a May 18, 2025, bombing at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, on June 4, 2025, in Los Angeles. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government has access to these powerful spy tools for foreign intelligence purposes, but it has sometimes, whether inadvertently or intentionally, improperly targeted U.S. citizens.
Building more guardrails into the legislation has long been a point of contention for privacy hawks. Republicans, in particular, became highly critical of the FISC after finding that the court approved the FBI’s warrant applications, which contained flimsy and inaccurate evidence, to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page beginning in 2016.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told the Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on Daskal’s appointment, that the «American people need to have confidence in the people tasked to serve as amici» before the FISC. Grassley pointed to a bill he introduced, the FISA Accountability Act, which would allow Congress to have a say in who is chosen as an amicus curiae.
Jordan and Grassley have been some of the most vocal proponents of reining in the federal government’s use of FISA after identifying instances in recent years of intelligence officials allegedly abusing their authority and infringing on U.S. citizens’ Fourth Amendment right to privacy. In the case of Page, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz released a report in 2019 that identified more than a dozen «significant errors or omissions» across the FBI’s four warrant applications used to surveil the former Trump aide. Daskal, in her new role, could offer confidential, weighty legal arguments to a FISC judge that support or oppose intelligence officials’ requests to surveil someone.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is seen in the U.S. Capitol during votes related to the government shutdown on Thursday, October 16, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Daskal served as a top lawyer in the Department of Homeland Security when she helped launch the Disinformation Governance Board. Conservatives heavily criticized it, describing the board as a «Ministry of Truth» that sought to censor their viewpoints in violation of the First Amendment.
Daskal chartered the board, while Nina Jankowicz was named its executive director, an appointment that fueled Republicans’ fury over it after finding Jankowicz’ past social media posts that they said revealed she was too partisan. Jankowicz, for instance, cast doubt on the New York Post’s bombshell story in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which she said fit a pattern of Russian «information laundering.» Biden administration officials vehemently objected to the claims in the New York Post’s story about Joe Biden’s handling of Ukrainian foreign policy, though the authenticity of the laptop itself has been verified through court proceedings.
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Republicans put so much pressure on DHS about the board — calling it an «abuse of taxpayer dollars» and raising alarm that it painted policy disagreements over COVID-19, election security and immigration as mis- or dis- information — that it disbanded just a few months after its launch.
In Daskal’s hearing exchange with Schmitt, Daskal said «it’s not appropriate for the government to censor any points of view.» Daskal did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
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Russia urges Iran, ‘all parties’ in Middle East to show restraint amid US military buildup

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Russia warned Iran and «all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution» Thursday amid a U.S. military buildup in the Middle East.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the remark as the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and its strike group are moving from the Caribbean toward the Middle East.
«Russia continues to develop relations with Iran, and in doing so, we call on our Iranian friends and all parties in the region to exercise restraint and caution, and we urge them to prioritize political and diplomatic means in resolving any problems,» Peskov said Thursday, according to Reuters.
«Right now, we are indeed seeing an unprecedented escalation of tensions in the region. But we still expect that political and diplomatic means and negotiations will continue to prevail in the search for a settlement,» he added.
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A F-18E fighter jet takes off from aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford as it sails during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on Sept. 24, 2025, in the North Sea. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
The move of the USS Gerald R. Ford would place two aircraft carriers and their accompanying warships in the region. The USS Abraham Lincoln and three guided-missile destroyers arrived in the Middle East more than two weeks ago.
Negotiations between the United States and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program advanced Tuesday toward what Tehran described as the beginning of a potential framework, but sharp public divisions between the two sides underscored how far apart they remain.
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is heading toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran escalate and President Donald Trump demands full nuclear dismantlement. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the two sides reached a «general agreement on a number of guiding principles» and agreed to begin drafting text for a possible agreement, with plans to exchange drafts and schedule a third round of talks.
Yet Washington has publicly insisted that any agreement must result in the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program — including its enrichment capacity — along with limits on Tehran’s ballistic missile program and an end to its support for allied militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, is seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise in September 2025. (Jonathan Klein/AFP via Getty Images)
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Those demands go well beyond temporary enrichment pauses or technical adjustments.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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