May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
.... For Kepler, the ability to do high-quality asteroseismic science was an unexpected benefit of the mission, but for PLATO it is built into the core mission concept (it’s even in the acronym). Tens of thousands of stars will be characterised through...
21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
... that its PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission has also been given the green light, following its ...selection in February 2014. PLATO is the third medium-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
...team will have to wait for the launch of PLATO in 2026 to corroborate their findings. Developed by ESA, the ... MPS is deeply involved in the PLATO mission and is currently building the PLATO Data Center. Distant worlds: typical exoplanets...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
... with the most confirmed planets is our Sun, with 8 confirmed planets. But with future missions such as PLATO and TESS to look forward to, perhaps more large multi-planet systems will be found. For more information...
March 2016
Philosophical perspectives on space
... a process that will generate knowledge of our surrounding world and of ourselves - is as old as philosophy itself. Both Plato and Aristotle dealt with the problem of knowledge. Mathematical knowledge, because of its inherent certainty (who can ...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... reached well over 3000. Ongoing and planned ESA and NASA space missions such as GAIA, Cheops, PLATO, Kepler II and TESS will increase the number of known systems to tens of thousands. Exoplanets have been detected...
