02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... to really understand the processes behind planet formation.” Thomas Henning, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and leader of the teams, summarises the scientific adventure: “After more than a decade of enormous efforts to build...
15 October 2018
SETI partners with MeerKAT to search for alien life
... to proposals for searches with the Square Kilometre Array. This is an exciting moment for SETI and radio astronomy in general,” said the Breakthrough Initiatives’ Executive Director, Pete Worden. With the addition of MeerKAT’s observations to its...
17 June 2019
Filling in the gaps of Jupiter-like planet formation
... more frequent,” said Eugene Chiang, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and member of the collaboration's theory group. Jupiter-size planets ... Paul Kalas, a UC Berkeley adjunct professor of astronomy. However, the fact that giant planets are more...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... and allow liquid water on its surface,” said co-author Diana Kossakowski at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Wasting no time in determining just what type of conditions GJ 357 d might succumb too, in an additional paper...
02 December 2019
Chang'e 4 relay satellite now a radio telescope
... years. “We are finally in business and have a radio-astronomy instrument of Dutch origin in space. The team has worked ...Boonstra of ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. The unfolding of one of the three antennas. Image: ...
11 December 2019
Water abundance lower than expected on exoplanets
...with the metal abundances for the Solar System (in astronomy, any element except for hydrogen and helium are...," said project leader Dr Nikku Madhusudhan from the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, who first measured low water vapour abundances in ...
