22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... planets with liquid water. The exoplanet system, named after the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile, is located in the Aquarius constellation, which is about 40 light years (235 trillion miles) away from...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
... commitment of $12 million to 2027-28.” The need for long-term partnerships with eight-metre-class optical/infrared telescopes was noted by the Australian government in its Decadal Plan for Australian Astronomy, 2016–2025. Although the...
13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... to Nature Astronomy, say is the most energetic of these types of events to date. Found using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Pan-STARRS1 Survey, PS1-10adi is calculated to have an energy of 2.3 x 1052 ergs, which is the equivalent of 2.3 x 1045...
13 July 2018
Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle
... in a new branch of astronomical research, this discovery could pave the same path for neutrino astronomy, and telescopes all around the world would follow the neutrinos lead to zero in on the same object. However, before...
03 September 2018
Water discovered in Jupiter's Great Red Spot suggests plenty more down below
... seemed amiss, so with the aid of two instruments on ground-based telescopes, iSHELL on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and the Near Infrared Spectrograph on the Keck 2 telescope, a team of US scientists now have evidence that paints a very...
11 September 2019
First detection of atmospheric water vapour on 'super-Earth' in habitable zone
... cannot be extracted – Hubble is brilliant, but its not technically capable of determining chemical signatures like other dedicated telescopes – the authors modelled different scenarios to find the best fit possible with their data. Those models...
