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Discoverer

Discoverer was the public cover name of a US satellite series launched from Vandenberg between 1959 and 1962, masking the classified CORONA film-return spy satellite program.

The discoveries of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun, began with confirmed detections in 1992 and now total more than 6,400 confirmed worlds, found mainly by transit and radial-velocity methods.

Discovery (Daft Punk album)

Discovery (2001) is the second studio album by French electronic duo Daft Punk, also known as their robot-era debut. Released 12 March 2001 on Virgin, its 14 tracks of filtered disco, vocoder pop, and samples like Eddie Johns's "More Spell on You" reshaped dance music and later anchored the anime film Interstella 5555.

Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)

Discovery (1979) is ELO's eighth studio album, produced by Jeff Lynne at Musicland Studios, Munich. First ELO album without strings, first UK number-one, five hit singles including Don't Bring Me Down.

Discovery (law)

Discovery (law) is the pretrial phase of civil litigation in which parties obtain evidence via depositions, interrogatories, and document requests; in US federal courts it is governed by FRCP Rules 26 to 37, with proportionality as the central limit.

Discovery and commercialization of archaeal enzymes

The discovery and commercialization of archaeal enzymes covers how polymerases from vent archaea like Thermococcus litoralis and Pyrococcus furiosus became patented, higher-fidelity alternatives to Taq in PCR.

Discovery and exploration of the Solar System

The discovery and exploration of the Solar System spans naked-eye antiquity, telescopic finds like Uranus in 1781 and Neptune in 1846, and spacecraft that have reached every planet since 1962.

Oct 21, 2026

Discovery Bay

Discovery Bay, also called Chile Bay, is a bay on northeast Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, site of Chile's Arturo Prat base (1947), Ecuador's Pedro Vicente Maldonado station, and the protected benthic habitat ASPA 144.

Discovery Capital Management

Discovery Capital Management is a global macro hedge fund manager in South Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1999 by Robert Citrone, a former Tiger Management portfolio manager known as a Tiger Cub.

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel, American documentary pay-TV channel founded by John Hendricks, launched June 17, 1985 to 156,000 homes; known for Shark Week (since 1988), now a Warner Bros. Discovery brand reaching 224 countries.

Oct 21, 2026

Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves

Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves (Reservas de Mata Atlântica da Costa do Descobrimento): serial natural World Heritage site, Bahia and Espírito Santo, Brazil, inscribed 1999; eight protected areas, 111,930 ha of Atlantic Forest, criteria (ix)(x).

Discovery doctrine

Discovery doctrine: the Doctrine of Discovery, a public international law principle giving discovering European nations property and sovereignty rights over inhabited lands, rooted in 15th-century papal bulls, codified in U.S. law by Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), repudiated by the Vatican in 2023.

Discovery en Español

Discovery en Español is a U.S. Spanish-language cable network launched by Discovery Communications in June 1998, the leading channel of Discovery U.S. Hispanic, airing documentaries and docu-reality originals such as Mexicánicos.

Discovery Family

Discovery Family Channel is an American pay-TV network launched October 13, 2014 from the rebranded Hub Network (itself formerly Discovery Kids). Discovery holds the controlling stake, Hasbro 40 percent; daytime carries Hasbro animation, primetime Discovery nonfiction.

Discovery Island (Bay Lake)

Discovery Island (Bay Lake) was an 11.5-acre Disney zoological park in Bay Lake at Walt Disney World, opened as Treasure Island in 1974, renamed Discovery Island, closed April 8, 1999, and abandoned since.

Oct 20, 2026

Discovery Land theme park

Discovery Land theme park (大连发现王国), or Dalian Haichang Discoveryland / Discovery Kingdom, is a 467,000-square-metre amusement park opened in 2006 in Jinshitan, Dalian, China, operated by the Haichang group.

Sep 29, 2026

Discovery learning

Discovery learning is a teaching method in which students acquire knowledge by exploring problems themselves, named by Jerome S. Bruner in 1961 and best used with guidance.

Discovery Limited (South African insurer)

Discovery Limited is a South African financial services group founded by Adrian Gore in 1992 and listed on the JSE since 1999, known for its Vitality rewards insurance model.

Discovery of Brazil

The Discovery of Brazil (Descobrimento do Brasil) is the traditional name for the Portuguese arrival on the Brazilian coast under Pedro Álvares Cabral on 22 April 1500.

Discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation

The discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation was made by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, in 1964–65.

Discovery of cosmic rays

The discovery of cosmic rays was Victor Hess's 1912 balloon finding that penetrating ionizing radiation reaches Earth from above, confirmed by Kolhörster and named by Millikan in the mid-1920s.

Discovery of Love (연애의 발견)

Discovery of Love (연애의 발견, Discovery of Romance) is a 2014 KBS2 16-episode romantic-comedy miniseries starring Jung Yu-mi, Eric Mun, and Sung Joon in a love triangle; directed by Kim Sung-yun, written by Jung Hyun-jung.

Discovery of Neptune

The discovery of Neptune was the finding of the eighth planet on 23 September 1846, when Galle and d'Arrest located it near the position Le Verrier predicted from Uranus's orbit.

Discovery of nuclear fission

The discovery of nuclear fission was the 1938–1939 finding that a uranium nucleus splits into two fragments when struck by a neutron, explained by Meitner and Frisch.

Discovery of radioactivity

The discovery of radioactivity was Henri Becquerel's 1896 finding that uranium salts spontaneously emit invisible radiation that fogs photographic plates, opening the study of nuclear physics.

Discovery of superconductivity

The discovery of superconductivity was the 1911 observation at Leiden, led by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, that solid mercury's electrical resistance fell to zero when cooled in liquid helium.

Discovery of the Book of the Law

The discovery of the Book of the Law was the finding of a scroll in the Temple of Jerusalem in 622 BC, during repairs under King Josiah of Judah.

Discovery of the electron

The discovery of the electron was J. J. Thomson's 1897 demonstration at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, that cathode rays are negatively charged particles far lighter than atoms.

Discovery of the Higgs boson

The discovery of the Higgs boson was announced at CERN on 4 July 2012, when the ATLAS and CMS experiments each observed it at a mass of 125 GeV.