17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... able to spot something the size of New York City on an exoplanet 100 light years away. How will it do this? According to ... The difficulties don’t stop there though. The light from the exoplanet will be spread out over a 1.6 kilometre (1 mile) wide...
23 July 2015
Exoplanet Kepler 452b and what the search for a real life “Another Earth” means for human self-perception
The most Earth-like exoplanet yet may have a lot to teach us…about ourselves. Kepler 452b, discovered by the Kepler Telescope, is located in our ...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...around the same figure again for candidate exoplanets (I.e potential exoplanets whose status has yet to be confirmed... or indeed refute these new findings as characterising an exoplanets atmosphere is currently very difficult with current ground-based ...
August 2017
On-orbit assembly will deliver major benefits in coming decade
...space missions within the next decade. The search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting space science endeavours...it may be too small to yield clear scientific conclusions on exoplanets. To deploy a telescope with double the aperture of James Webb...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... or satellites capable of detecting the signatures of life, not only on Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, but in exoplanets beyond the solar neighbourhood. However, given that the prospect of finding life anywhere close to us is dire to say...
02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
... eclipsed (gray circular mask). HD 106906b, the exiled exoplanet that may have a dusty ring system of its own...future. The GPI operates on the Gemini South telescope and the GPI Exoplanet Survey is operated by a team of astronomers at UC Berkeley and ...
