19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
...identified by a team of astronomers in a planetary system 40 lights years (10.5 parsecs) away. A few years ago, scientists using... up with TESS data that showed a dimming in the light curve for the planet at this exact position, adding additional hints...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...of Didymoon around its parent ‘Didymain’ after the impact. This value can be obtained based on measurements of light curves – or variations in brightness over time. This is a well-established, occultation-based method of exoplanet modelling. But from...
August 2018
AI offers new approach to space situational awareness
... of confidence. Traditional approaches to this problem revolve around manual analysis of target signature variations (such as light-curves). However, this capability requires automation to scale up to the levels of demand required today and in the...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... mission. Perhaps data from other missions such as the PLATO satellite, which is expected to obtain stellar photometric light curves for 1,000,000 stars, could also be used in the same way to search for GWs. More information...
