17 April 2020
A six-planet system is discovered and more could be hiding say astronomers
... instrument called SOPHIE installed at the Haute-Provence Observatory in the South of France, astronomers have discovered a six planet system containing a "super-Earth" and five "mini-Neptunes,” all with exceptionally regular spacing; a feature which...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
..., and with an abundance of liquid water on its surface, Earth is a planet like no other that we know of so far. It stands to reason then... 20 to 70 billion years and it might give orbiting planets a better chance to establish life say the team. After...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... simulation produced a close match, then the initial population was likely a good representation of the actual population of planets orbiting those stars." Kunimoto's research also shed more light on one of the most outstanding questions in exoplanet...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
... the moon also reinforces the idea that most dwarf planets have satellites. "Makemake is in the class of rare...circular orbit around MakeMake and thus completes a circuit around the dwarf planet in 12 days or longer. Determining the shape of the moons ...
26 September 2017
Rocket Lab to fly Planet and Spire satellites on second test flight
... “our companies have long shared an ethos of dreaming big and executing on that vision, so it’s only fitting that Planet is among the first payloads to fly on a Rocket Lab Electron. The Electron will be a game changer in a traditionally difficult...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
...a 16-metre telescope. ESPRESSO will be unsurpassed for at least a decade — now I am just impatient to find our first rocky planet!” explains lead scientist for ESPRESSO, Francesco Pepe from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. The radial velocity...
