22 February 2016
Researchers constrain a possible location for Planet 9 using Cassini data
...Caltech researchers provided the most compelling evidence yet that Planet X or Planet 9 as it has been nicknamed, resides in a... observed by the smaller objects. A predicted consequence of Planet Nine is that a second set of confined objects should...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... for astronomy in the coming decades is the characterisation of the atmospheres, and possibly the surfaces, of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones around nearby stars. The habitable zone (HZ) or ‘Goldilocks Zone’ is seen as the location around...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... and B, however the tell-tale sign of a tiny wobble in the star caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet was spotted by astronomers using the HARPS spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla. The...
04 December 2019
Giant planet found orbiting a white dwarf for the first time
... now, scientists had never found evidence of a surviving giant planet around a white dwarf. “It was one of those chance ...found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus Follow-up observations using the X-Shooter...
