10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
... from the Sun. This large distance from the central pair of stars could be key to the planet’s survival. “The planet in b Centauri is an alien world in an environment that is completely different from what we experience here on Earth and in our...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
...to greatly enhance its ability to find potentially habitable planets around the closest stellar system to Earth. VISIR,...to reveal any possible signatures of potential terrestrial-like planets. The new hardware includes an instrument module contracted ...
10 April 2017
Super-Jupiter mass planet found in the galactic bulge
... that is only a third the size of our Sun and is likely located in the Galactic bulge. The massive planet, known as MOA-2016-BLG-227Lb, was discovered by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration who used...
11 April 2018
Revealing planet formation processes with SPHERE
... the light from the evolving protostar masks the presence of any planets that have started to form. Rather handily, SPHERE is equipped ... – sites that are considered to be undergoing planet production – SPHERE will revolutionise our understanding of ...
01 March 2019
New evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
... debate, and we found the first geological evidence of a planet-wide groundwater system on Mars.” This evidence comes in the form... on – form within. In the second stage (middle), the planet-wide water level drops and new landforms emerge as a result....
15 February 2021
Possible planet found in habitable zone around Alpha Centauri
...Centauri. Proxima Centauri is already famous for harbouring a a rocky planet – Proxima b – not much bigger than the Earth; a ...imaging capabilities – a huge step towards imaging Earth-sized planets, Wagner says in a tweet. Another interesting aspect of...
