02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
...Cassini did for Saturn, Juno continues to make exciting discoveries about the Solar Systems largest planet after its five-...to contain eight planets like our own. LIGO’s continued discoveries included the first detection of a neutron star merger and ...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
...like the new stellar streams. "There are all kinds of discoveries waiting to be found in the data. While DES scientists... will lead to the crowdsourcing of new and unexpected discoveries,” added Adam Bolton, associate director for the Community Science...
16 May 2018
Astronomers find stars forming just 250 million years after Big Bang
... around 250 million years after the Universe began. The discovery of the oldest oxygen signal ever detected by any telescope...author of the new paper detailing this research. This discovery also represents the most distant galaxy ever observed by the...
20 September 2018
TESS finds its first exoplanet – a super-Earth 60 light years away
... time of its behemoth neighbour – just 6 days, compared with the 5.7 year orbit for Pi Mensae b. Although the discovery has yet to be reviewed by other scientists to validate it, the preliminary analysis suggests that Pi Mensae c, the newly found...
14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
..., natural variations of the stellar brightness which could masquerade as a planet.” The international team of astronomers behind the discovery were also the same team who in 2016 spotted Proxima Centauri b; the closest known exoplanet to us only...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... week the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) hosted the first TESS Science conference dedicated to the multitude of discoveries NASA’s planet hunting telescope has helped uncover in its first year of operation. One of the most intriguing...
