September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... life. This was merely confirmation of a widespread belief. Seven Earth-sized planets have been observed by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope around a tiny ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1. Three of these planets lie in the habitable zone...
31 August 2016
Record-breaking galaxy cluster discovered
... result is based on data from a large group of observatories in space and on the ground including Chandra, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, ESA's XMM-Newton and Herschel Space Observatory, the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
... galaxy in our Local Group. After observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006, Andromeda was thought to be two to ... speed of 11 kilometres per second to make it into space. The research also questions previous estimates about the amount of...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... Radial velocity Planet Searcher) - an instrument dedicated to the discovery of extrasolar planets and the now retired Spitzer Space telescope, discovered LHS 1140; a cool dwarf star with a surface temperature around 2400-3700 Kelvin that hosted ...
