11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
.... In this latest announcement, Kepler scientists have doubled the number of known exoplanets smaller than the size of Neptune in our own Solar System and found over a hundred that are smaller than 1.2 times the size...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun. Credit: ESO/Tomruen/nagualdesign According to Konstantin Batyagin, the...
30 August 2016
Is there anybody out there? SETI researchers look to explain mysterious signal
... bit is that this star has at least one potentially habitable planet, called HD 164595b – roughly the size of Neptune and with a 40-day year. There could, of course, be other still undetected planets in that system. Size of HD 164595...
11 September 2017
Are we being watched from afar?
... the light than our distant but more massive gas giant neighbours, I.e Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. "Larger planets would naturally block out more light as they pass in front of their star", commented lead...
01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... human-made objects in the Universe. Voyager 1 and 2 initially set out to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, but once this task was complete, the twin spacecraft extended their mission to study the region...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... have been discovered and their diversity appears endless. All manner of exoworlds from hot Jupiters, sub-Neptunes and super-Earths have been found orbiting different types of stars, and there is no apparent pattern linking...
