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...
06 February 2017
Planet and Google announce final stages of Terra Bella deal
...) in 2014 for $500 million. The current deal includes the relocation of a significant number of Terra Bella employees to Planet, located in San Fransisco, California. The acquisition includes all of Terra Bella's business dealings, along with its...
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...
28 October 2019
Hygiea asteroid could turn out to be the smallest dwarf planet yet
... of another object, it orbits around the Sun, and, unlike a planet like Earth or Venus, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its ...objects like Ceres from being classified as a full blown planet. The final requisite is that a body has to ...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
... Rubin Observatory will produce," Bernardinelli says. The searches could also help determine whether Planet Nine, a hypothesised Neptune-sized planet that's thought to inhabit space beyond Pluto, really exists or not. "There are lots of ideas...
