November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... with their own merits. The 2020s will witness the launch of both JWST and RST (formerly WFIRST), two space-based telescopes whose primary missions are not the study of exoplanets, but which should...
28 August 2016
How habitable is Proxima b?
... such as the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), not only that but with space telescopes such as WFIRST, Proxima b could be the first exoplanet to have its spectra examined for active biology. The general consensus...
17 July 2019
New measurement deepens mystery of Universe’s expansion rate
... then? Scheduled to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA's upcoming mission, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), could one day provide a definitive figure for Hubble’s constant as the powerful space observatory aims to collect...
