Category: discovery of Neptune

  It's only natural that in 150 years the standards of evidence in many fields of science - what it takes to make a case - have changed. Several outlets late last week and over the weekend reported news, off a paper in Science, that a sunlike star among the 150,000 that the Kepler telescope is monitoring for tiny blips in their brightness as planets cross in front of them, found another. But this planet is in the bag without such shadow blips of its own. And several outlets dutifully report the press release's proper, main angle: that by inferring its presence from the irregularity in the pace at which yet other, genuinely transiting, planets orbit their sun, another one must be there perturbing their orbits....