25 June 2015
From WASP-142b to supernovae: Tom Wagg’s planet and other discoveries by teenagers
... of a star caught his eye. This month, Wagg’s discovery was finally confirmed after further research. The teenager had indeed ...discover a supernova at just 10 years old. These recent discoveries testify to the fact that taking an interest in astronomy...
05 July 2015
From SETI to black crust on Churyumov-Gerasimenko: looking for alien life
...space observatory’s field for radio signals potentially emitted by intelligent civilisations , for example. Unverified claims of the discovery of alien life have been made numerous times, meanwhile – and we don’t mean wacky reports of alien abduction...
21 October 2015
‘Great Pumpkin’ Halloween flyby: implications of asteroid 2015 TB145 discovery
The discovery of asteroid 2015 TB145 has inspired scientists to nickname the ...Pumpkin” having only been discovered on October 10 of this year. Such a late discovery has already been used as evidence that we need to spend more time and resources ...
22 January 2016
Possible “Planet Nine” Discovery Announced
Potential “Planet Nine” discovery was announced on January 20, 2016, by Caltech scientists ... gravitational interaction with Jupiter or Saturn. “One of the most startling discoveries about other planetary systems has been that the most common type of...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... Earth is from the Sun, has tantalising prospects. “The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it’s the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just...
03 April 2018
Astronomers unexpectedly find the most distant star ever discovered
... distant objects in the Universe. For the newly lensed stellar discovery, now aptly named Lensed Star 1 (LS1), it was ...and 14 000 degrees Celsius making it blue in colour. “The discovery of LS1 allows us to gather new insights into the constituents of...
