09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... being discovered, with an incredible wealth of sizes, forms and orbits. They challenge our preconceived ideas about planetary systems and are forcing scientists to revise their theories of the physical processes behind the origins of planets. With...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
... our huge galaxy, we Earthlings don’t need to send spacecraft to every star. We need only to populate about ten planetary systems in our stellar neighbourhood, in the radius of about 50 light years. The next steps in exploration will be undertaken...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life FP = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems NE = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life. FL = The fraction of suitable planets on which life...
29 March 2016
To build super-Earths near host star 'dead zones' are required say researchers
From studies of extrasolar systems, it is apparent that planetary systems around other stars are as varied as the planets they contain and that no one system is like another. Nonetheless, more than half of the observed Sun-like stars in the solar ...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... astronomers, who used the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 Survey (Pan-STARRS 1). Niku is small by space standards...the Sun backwards. Typically, when a planetary system is formed, angular momentum causes everything to spin in ...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... an injected Earth-mass planet on this nearby planetary system hoping to find a stable orbital configuration for the...planet is supported by long-term orbital stability of the system, orbital dynamics and the synthetic radial velocity signal analysis",...
