April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
... mechanism we don’t yet understand,” said David Armstrong, a planetary scientist at the University of Warwick in the UK, who helped...which have already found some of the most remarkable planetary systems known today around nearby M dwarf stars, the...
11 January 2017
ESO Signs Agreement with Breakthrough Initiatives to search for planets nearby
... visible light waves, and it allows scientists to peer through dust clouds to see the beginning stages of a blossoming planetary system. But even viewed in the mid-infrared, an evolving central star still remains millions of times brighter than...
23 May 2018
First permanent extrasolar asteroid found near Jupiter
... direction, so it further implies that 2015 BZ509 did not originate here but must have formed in a neighbouring planetary system before being captured by Jupiter. Being captured in this way might seem a little dubious, but over 4.5 billion...
20 April 2020
New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet
... your average comet, as it packed with carbon monoxide (CO) suggesting it is likely to have formed in a cold region of its home planetary system, far from its host star. In the last few years, astronomers have had glimpses of other worlds...
19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... more water than Earth and has an ocean hundreds of kilometres deep has been identified by a team of astronomers in a planetary system 40 lights years (10.5 parsecs) away. A few years ago, scientists using HARPS (the High Accuracy Radial velocity...
14 December 2017
AI detects eighth planet orbiting distant sun
... early-stage research to apply machine learning algorithms – promises to continue to yield significant advances in our understanding of planetary systems around other stars. I’m sure there are more firsts in the data waiting for people to find them...
