17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
.... Jupiter-size planets in this sweet spot have tended to go unobserved in past searches, such as those conducted by the Kepler Space Telescope transit survey and other past radial velocity observations – which looks for telltale wobbles...
26 June 2019
LightSail 2 gets ready to make its debut in space
... ultimately started with Carl Sagan – the philosophy behind light sails started as early as 1608 with Johannes Kepler – but the well-known American astronomer, author and science populariser, was engrossed with seeing if the...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
... a viable means of propulsion for CubeSats - an idea that is documented as far back as the 1600s by German astronomer Johannes Kepler, who is renowned for his work on describing the laws of the planets’ orbits. How will the CubeSat...
16 December 2019
Cheops, ESA's exoplanet watching telescope launches tomorrow
... like our own Earth,” said Kate Isaak, CHEOPS project scientist at ESA. “It follows on from CoRoT, from Kepler and from TESS, and it’s the first in a series of three missions from ESA that are dedicated to exoplanet...
20 November 2020
The iconic Arecibo Observatory to be demolished due to safety concerns
..., although we now know that billions of exoplanets could potentially be residing in the Milky Way thanks to telescopes such as Kepler, the first was discovered using Arecibo in 1992. The famous radio dish is also used by NASA to characterise...
