August 2018
Flying to the stars
... possibilities and challenges associated with getting to the stars and asks if humans will ever set foot on an exoplanet. Flying to another star is incredibly difficult, first and foremost due to the distances involved. Imagine for a moment...
25 August 2016
Earth-sized planet found around our nearest neighbouring star
... Proxima b, has a temperature suitable for liquid water to exist on its surface, if it were present and is the closest exoplanet to us. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located just over four light-years from our Solar System...
17 March 2017
Giant Jupiter-like planet gives a rare peek at alternative planet formation
... planet to orbit its central star. This means that HD 106906b has a larger orbit than any other exoplanet discovered to date and it is throwing into question just exactly how and where it formed. "This is such a young...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... as Di Stefano and team’s result is, they cannot say with 100 percent certainty that its definitely an extragalactic exoplanet. More data would be needed to verify their interpretation of the data, which would be difficult as the planet candidate...
27 July 2019
Hundreds of new planet candidates detected by Kepler
... – and 15 months after being reassigned to its new stellar target, Kepler had racked up its 1,000th confirmed exoplanet discovery. Kepler’s K2 mission comprised of 19 ‘campaigns,’ lasting around 80 days each. These new discoveries were all extracted...
19 November 2021
New mission to search for habitable planets close to Earth announced
..., TOLIMAN stands for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood. It will search for exoplanets around the nearest stars, by looking for the small wobbles a star makes as it responds to the gravitational tug...
