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....
10 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
... terms of graphic symbolism, it has to be Saturn: ask a child to sketch a planet and, likely as not, it will have rings. This must be at least part ...one would expect, the rings, the moons and the planet itself. Chapter 3, for example, is entitled “Why...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... trans-Neptunian object (TNO) – most likely a dwarf planet – at the edges of the Solar System, making it...name is 2014 UZ224), DeeDee is surpassed in distance only by the dwarf planet Eris – the ninth-most-massive known body directly orbiting the Sun. ...
