18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... have used a statistical approach to infer that an Earth-like planet is residing in the habitable zone of GJ 832, a planetary system that is already known to harbour two planets at 0.16 and 3.53 astronomical units (AU) from its host star. This recent...
18 July 2018
Solar Planetary Systems
... of colour here and there. As a package, it would be hard to find a better, more comprehensive technical introduction to planetary systems… and if a cheaper paperback or e-copy was available as an alternative, the ‘elephant in the room’ of its high...
29 June 2016
Researchers detect interstellar organic materials being fed into a young planetary system
... that interstellar organic materials are being fed into a rotating disk structure that eventually forms a planetary system. Using the high spatial resolution capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
..., and with upgraded light shielding and stability. Twinkle will collect light from its target planetary systems using a modified telescope system developed by STFC’s RAL Space Facility for Earth observation missions. Behind a 50cm-class primary...
03 November 2017
Dust belt hints at more planets around our nearest star
... shape of the very faint outer belt, could help astronomers estimate the inclination of the Proxima Centauri planetary system, which in turn would allow a better determination of the mass of the Proxima b planet. This at present, is currently known...
November 2020
The alien hunter’s field manual
... exoplanets, we learn less from simply searching for more, and astronomers have shifted focus to observing interesting planetary systems that can be used to test hypotheses about planet formation, occurrence and composition. A similar transition will...
