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...
02 July 2018
Baby planet in dusty disc finally caught on camera
... two survey programmes called SHINE (SpHere INfrared survey for Exoplanets) and DISK (sphere survey for circumstellar DISK) designed ... the near-infrared to discover and characterise new exoplanets and planetary systems, while DISK explores known, ...
06 December 2017
The next generation planet hunter is here!
... of Geneva in Switzerland. The radial velocity method allows astronomers to measure the mass and orbit of any residing exoplanet and it works by measuring the gravitational pull the planet exerts on its host star; the less massive...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... and Didier Queloz at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Cambridge, UK. Their award is “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” James Peebles’ insights into physical cosmology have enriched the entire field...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... provide important constraints on planet formation and evolution theories, and help optimize future missions dedicated to finding exoplanets." According to UBC astronomer Jaymie Matthews: "Our Milky Way has as many as 400 billion stars, with seven...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... been the prominent technique used by astronomers to find exoplanets and, whilst it is obviously successful in its application...in the accretion disc surrounding the young star. An ice exoplanet Grain survival is dependent on its proximity to the host ...
