05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... candidate. Otherwise the team will have to wait for the launch of PLATO in 2026 to corroborate their findings. Developed by ESA, the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) main mission is the discovery of Earth-sized planets around Sun...
21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
... that was hypothesised by Albert Einstein a century ago. ESA also announced in the same meeting that its PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission has also been given the green light, following its selection in February 2014...
27 October 2017
Astronomers find system with six planets
...our own Solar System or other multiple-transiting systems discovered with Kepler to date. And unfortunately, the authors are not so ...star with the most confirmed planets is our Sun, with 8 confirmed planets. But with future missions such as PLATO and...
