17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
.... Our current telescopes are adept at finding small, rocky Earth-like planets by indirect methods, but they cannot ‘see’ them directly... billion miles) or 550 astronomical units (AU) away from the planet we live on. Thats a heck of a distance for a...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... objectives could not be met. Not wanting to give up on this hugely successful planet hunter, instead of being able to monitor Earth-like planets around main sequence stars like our sun as it was designed to, it was proposed that Kepler search for...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
... are still pretty much in the dark. Five years ago, astronomers made the surprising discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting our closest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, within the star’s circumsolar habitable zone (HZ). Dubbed Proxima...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
... artists. Changing landscapes Mars was always seen as the most Earth-like planet. It has polar caps and dark areas which appear to ..., and at least partly opaque, with clouds and an almost Earth-like landscape, but with seas and lakes not of water but ...
27 July 2015
Debating Kepler 452b, Yuri Milner, and the search for intelligent life
... was announced, both searchers and sceptics have had their say on the possibility of Earth making contact with intelligent life. A potentially “Earth-like” planet out there, which is what Kepler 452b is alleged to be, will obviously generate a more...
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
... are possible. We believe that with further improvements we’ll soon be able to directly image any smaller, possibly Earth-like planets orbit in Alpha Centauri’s habitable zones,” Wagner says via Twitter. These results have been published as part...
