April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... two sectors in the sky. Currently orbiting a nearby, bright K dwarf star located approximately 16 parsecs away, HD21749b is an exoplanet which currently stands as the longest-period TESS planet confirmed to date. Although that is notable in its own...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
...useful guideline but not a strict, definitive number for colonisation projects. Artist’s concept of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f, an exoplanet about 40 light years from Earth. Cows in space? Sending a ship laden with frozen embryos could be a realistic...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... is detected by the time variation of the magnified brightness of the source star, shown in the top panel. WFIRST Exoplanet Microlensing Survey In Figure 1 we compare the region of orbital sensitivity of NASA’s Kepler mission and WFIRST to the orbits...
18 December 2019
After delays, ESA’s exoplanet mission launches successfully
... Prize in Physics for their breakthrough finding, which marked the beginning of a new era of investigation and turned exoplanet research into one of the fastest growing areas of astronomy. Over the past quarter of a century, astronomers using...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
...(ESA) has selected the Atmospheric Remote‐sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large‐survey mission, otherwise known as ARIEL, as...their cloud systems. "ARIEL is a logical next step in exoplanet science, allowing us to progress on key science questions regarding...
11 May 2016
Kepler scientists announce a major increase in confirmed exoplanet numbers
...like signals that the telescope recorded.” The outlook for exoplanet surveys improved dramatically with the launch of Kepler and ...quicker solution and narrow down the search for true exoplanet signals. Batalha explains that Kepler achieves this by ...
